CONVOLVULUSL. - BINDWEED
Scientific Description:
Small woody shrubs or subshrubs, or woody-based or prostrate, climbing or erect herbaceous perennials, sometimes herbaceous annuals. Leaves petiolate or sessile. Flowers solitary or in cymes, axillary or terminal. Bracteoles not concealing calyx. Corolla rarely glabrous, usually hairy in 5 bands externally. Stamens included. Ovary glabrous or pubescent, bilocular, ovules 2 per loculus. Stigma of 2 filiform to clavate-cylindrical lobes. Pollen grains tricolpate, exine smooth.
Reference:
Parris BS (1978). Convolvulus L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 6: 198.
Public Description:
Convolvus is a genus of annual or perennial herbaceous vines and (a few species of) woody shrubs known as “bindweed” and “morning glory” which has worldwide distribution. There are approximately 72 species and 35 species (39 taxa) in Türkiye. Flowers are mostly white or pink, but blue, violet, purple or yellow in some species. The majority of species are plants that are climbing over other plants, and are considered problematic for this reason. However, most species are grown as ornamental plants due to their remarkable flowers. Morning glory species are used as food plants by the larvae of some butterfly and moth species.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolvulus, Accessed date: 02.02.2016.
Anonymous 2 (2016). http://www.britannica.com/plant/Convolvulus/, Accessed date: 02.02.2016.
Anonymous 3 (2016). https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/genus/convolvulus/, Accessed date: 02.02.2016.
Aykurt C (2012). Convolvulus L., 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. 376–378.
