CALYSTEGIAR.Br. - BINDWEED
Scientific Description:
Rhizomatous herbs, procumbent or climbing, glabrous. White latex present. Leaves petiolate, reniform to cordate or sagittate. Flowers solitary, axillary with a pair of large bracteoles inserted immediately below the calyx and partly or wholly concealing it. Corolla large, trumpet-shaped, glabrous or ciliate only. Ovary glabrous. unilocular; ovules 4. Stigma of 2 swollen and elongate lobes. Pollen grains pantoporate with a smooth exine.
Reference:
Brummitt RK (1978). Calystegia R.Br., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 6: 219.
Public Description:
Calystegia is a genus of annual or herbaceous perennial twining vines and known as “false bindweed”. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution in temperate and subtropical regions, but with half of the species endemic to California. There are approximately 25 species in the word and 3 species (3 taxa) in Türkiye. Its growing to 5 m tall and the flowers are white or pink colors.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2017). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calystegia, Accessed date: 01.04.2017.
Aykurt C (2012). Calystegia R.Br., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 375–376.
