Convolvulus dorycnium, L.

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4. C. dorycnium L. , Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 2: 923 (1759).

Upright, divaricately-branched, densely pubescent shrub 50-100 cm; mature stems and branches woody, rigid. Leaves linear-spathulate to oblanceolate. Peduncles much longer than bracts and flowers, b to few-flowered. Sepals obtuse to emarginate, apiculate. Corolla 10-20 mm, pink. Dry places. S. Greece and Aegean region. Cr Gr.

C. lanatus Vahl , Symb. Bot. 1:16 (1790), was recorded for Kriti by Sibthorp and others but no record can be confirmed. It occurs in N.E. Africa and S.W. Asia. It is an irregularly branched, densely pubescent shrub up to 50 cm, often with rigid spinetipped mature branches, and the flowers are crowded in dense axillary heads. Abnormal forms of 6 have been misidentified as this species.