CONVOLVULUS PENTAPETALOIDES

Family:- CONVOLVULACEAE

Common Name:- None

Synonyms:- Convolvulus tricolor subsp. pentapetaloides.

Meaning:- Convolvulus (L) Entwined. A name used by the Roman naturalist and

philosopher Pliny.

Pentapetaloides. (L) Five-petalled. with five petals.

General description:- Erect, ascending or prostrate annual. with slender,

aparessed-pubescent.

Stems:-

1) 10-40 cm. slender, appressed-pubescent, unbranched.

Leaves:-

1) Lower, long-petiolate, with a narrowly obovate, entire, obtuse blade.

2) Upper, short-petiolate to sessile, oblanceolate.

Flowers:-

1) Solitary in the leaf axils.

2) Pedicel c. 20 mm, pubescent, recurved in fruit.

3) Corolla 8-12 mm in diam, deep blue to sky-blue with a yellow centre.

Fruit:-

1) Capsule globose, c. 5 mm in diam., glabrous or weakly hairy.

Key features:-

1) Corolla 8-12 mm in diam., deep blue to sky blue witha yellow centre.

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Habitat:- Dry open shrubby vegetation, open coniferous woodland, field margins

and olive groves, usually on limestone.

Distribution:- A few localities in the East of Greece, but apparently lacking in W

Greece. -Widespread in the Mediteranean region and SW Asia. Previously

unrecored from Crete, Discovered by Nikos Marakis in the Zakros Gorge area E

Crete April 2023.

Flowering time:- Late March to May.

Photos by:-Nikos Marakis