Convolvulus boedeckerianus Peter

Perennial, forming several woody stems from crown of a long woody taproot; vegetative parts and calyx covered with adpressed, usually golden-brown or fulvous, more rarely silvery white, hairs. Stems slender, prostrate or occasionally twining at the ends, rarely suberect, terete, sometimes nearly glabrous, up to ±600 mm long. Leaves usually pinnately to subpalmately 5-lobed, lower ones often ovate or oblong, coarsely dentate to pinnatilobed, gradually changing upwards into divided, more typical leaves, 10-60 mm long; middle lobe of blade usually distinctly the largest, often irregularly toothed or pinnatilobed to pinnatisect, rarely quite entire; basal lobes (auricles) usually bifid; lateral lobes usually linear, entire or slightly toothed, sometimes pinnatilobed; pubescence usually rather sparse to glabrescent; petiole 1-8 mm long. Flowers solitary; peduncles usually wanting, if present, then very short; bracteoles subulate, minute; pedicel 2-10 mm long, somewhat elongating and glabrescent in fruit. Calyx 4-6 mm long, tomentose to laxly hairy; sepals subequal, ovate, acute, 2-3 mm wide. Corolla white, pale pink or pale pinkish mauve, 7-10 mm long, limb 9-12 mm wide, 5-angled with acute triangular lobes; midpetaline areas silky pubescent outside. Capsule glabrous, globose or ovoid-globose, apiculate straw-coloured, 5-7 mm wide. Seeds dark brown, when ripe distinctly verrucose-rugose or almost muriculate, ±4 mm long.