Convolvulus dregeanus Choisy

Perennial, totally glabrous, with several annual stems from a single thick taproot. Stems trailing or ascending to suberect, sometimes branched from base, very slender, up to ±300 mm long. Leaves small, variable in shape, sometimes lanceolate to linear, often with 2 minute basal auricles, acute, nearly sessile, 4-40 mm long; lower leaves usually oblong to ovate-suborbicular, entire, subcordate or ± lobed, gradually changing upwards; upper leaves deeply palmately 3-5-fid with linear lobes of which the middle one is the longest and sometimes ± pinnatilobed, up to 25 mm long, petiole of upper leaves up to 10 mm long. Peduncles 5-45 mm long, 1-flowered; bracteoles lanceolate-linear to almost spathulate, ±2 mm long, usually green and foliaceous; pedicels 1-5 mm long or occasionally peduncles reduced and pedicels up to ±10 mm long. Calyx 4-7 mm long; sepals much imbricate, obovate or the outer oblong, obtuse. Corolla 12-20 mm long, pinkish white or white. Capsule globose, ±6 mm wide. Seeds scabrid to muriculate, ±4 mm long.