Convolvulus capensis Burm.F.

Perennial. Stems climbing or sometimes prostrate, herbaceous, occasionally suffruticose, ascending, slender, terete, up to at least 1.5 m long, usually clothed (like leaves, petiole and calyx) with brown pubescence, glabrescent, more rarely glabrous or nearly so (if so, leaves and petioles also less hairy). Leaves often variable in shape on a single specimen; lower leaves narrowly reniform to cordate-oblong or almost hastate-oblong, rounded to subacute or emarginate at the apex, up to 35 mm long, with subentire to repand, crenate or dentate margin; petiole 5 mm long; upper leaves pinnately incised or palmately 5-fid, uppermost usually consisting of 5 linear lobes of which the central one is the longest; lobes usually variously lobed or incised, linear lobes of uppermost leaves less so to entire, length of blade 10-70 mm, width 5-45 mm; petiole 5-40 mm long. Peduncles 1-to cymosely few-flowered, usually slender, terete, less hairy than stem or sometimes glabrous, often 40-100 mm long, sometimes longer, rarely shorter; bracteoles lanceolate, linear or subulate, minute or up to 8 mm long, hairy; pedicels slender, usually more densely pubescent than stems, 5-25 mm long. Calyx silky villous outside, rarely nearly glabrous, 6-10 mm long; sepals broadly ovate to oblong, much imbricate, usually obtuse but often apiculate or mucronate, chartaceous (outer ones) to somewhat membranous (inner ones). Corolla funnel-shaped, white inside and pale pink outside with greenish midpetaline areas or pink to pale rose, 15-35 mm long and as much in diameter, brownish strigose on midpetaline areas. Ovary glabrous. Capsule globose, glabrous, ±8 mm in diameter. Seeds dark brown, glabrous, verrucose, 4-5 mm long.