Convolvulus verecundus Allan, Fl. N. Zeal. 1: 967. 1961. (Allan 1961: 967).
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Convolvulus verecundus Allan, Fl. N. Zeal. 1: 967. 1961. (Allan 1961: 967). |
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68. Convolvulus verecundus Allan, Fl. N. Zeal. 1: 967. 1961. (Allan 1961: 967).
Type.
NEW ZEALAND, South Island, A.W. Anderson 15 Jan 1941 (holotype CHR 76122).
Description.
Perennial herb from an underground rhizome, stems decumbent and trailing to ascending up to 20 cm long, thinly pubescent on vegetative parts. Leaves petiolate, 6.5-11.5 × 5-12.5 mm, deltoid, ovate or broadly oblong, always lacking basal auricles, retuse or obtuse at apex, margin undulate, base more or less truncate and shortly cuneate; petioles 1.5-2 cm. peduncles 1-3 cm, 1-flowered, very slender; bracteoles 1-3 mm, linear; pedicels 2-6 mm, pubescent; sepals 4 × 3.5-3.8 cm, obovate or broadly oblong, margin fimbriate and translucent, abaxially pubescent; corolla 18-19 mm, white or pink, unlobed, midpetaline bands pink, pubescent upwards; ovary glabrous; style glabrous, divided 5-8 mm above base, stigmas 1.5-2 mm, unequal. Capsule glabrous, seeds glabrous, covered in low ridges and tubercles.
Distribution.
New Zealand: South Island (Cockayne 2370), 200-1000 m, always inland.
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