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Evolvulus

L. (1762)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Solanales Family: Convolvulaceae Genus: Evolvulus

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Herbs, subshrubs, or shrubs.

Stems: Stems never twining.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Margins entire. Petiolate or sessile.

Flowers: Flowers 1 to few, pedicellate or sessile in leaf axils, or several in terminal spikes or capitula; bracts tiny. Flowers perfect. Sepals 5, free, equal or subequal. Corolla rotate, funnelform, or salverform; limb ± entire to 5-lobed, midpetaline bands often pilose outside. Stamens 5, included or exserted; pollen globose, rugate, not spiny. Ovary superior, glabrous or pilose, 2-loculed; ovules 2 per locule; styles 2, filiform, free or united basally, each 2-cleft; stigma filiform, terete (cylindrical) or slightly clavate.

Fruit: Capsules globose or ovoid; usually 4-valved. Seeds 1-4; smooth or minutely tuberculate; glabrous.

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Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Island Status

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl. ed. 2: 391 (1762)

Occurrences

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