Contains 13 genera and 70 accepted taxa overall.
This family is completely databased for all specimens.
Characteristics
CONVOLVULACEAE
Dicot
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Classification
SOLANALES
CONVOLVULACEAE
Genera
| Genus | Common Name | Taxa Count | Herbarium Specimens | Photos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aniseia | ANISEIA | 1 | ||
| Bonamia | LADY'S NIGHTCAP | 1 | ||
| Calystegia | FALSE BINDWEED | 2 | ||
| Camonea | 1 | |||
| Convolvulus | BINDWEED | 1 | ||
| Cuscuta | DODDER | 10 | ||
| Dichondra | PONYSFOOT | 2 | ||
| Distimake | 5 | |||
| Evolvulus | DWARF MORNINGGLORY | 5 | ||
| Ipomoea | MORNING-GLORY | 29 | ||
| Jacquemontia | CLUSTERVINE | 6 | ||
| Poranopsis | PORANA | 1 | ||
| Stylisma | DAWNFLOWER | 6 |
Identification Key
1. Plant parasitic; stems yellowish to orange; leaves absent or reduced to scales
1. Plant photosynthetic; stems usually green distally; leaves with expanded blades present
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2. Stem prostrate, rooting at nodes; leaf blade base cordate and 7-20 mm wide or long; corolla subequal to shorter than the calyx, deeply 5-lobed, the sinuses >½ the corolla lobe length; fruit deeply 2-lobed
2. Stem prostrate, twining, to erect, rarely rooting at nodes; leaf blade base cordate and usually >20 mm wide or long or leaf blade not cordate; corolla longer than the calyx, unlobed or to moderately 5-lobed, the sinuses <½ the corolla lobe length
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3. Flowers 5-7 mm long, numerous in elongate panicles
3. Flowers 5-80 mm long, solitary or in cymes
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4. Styles 2 per flower, free or fused only at the base; generally all trailing to procumbent and leaves small, to 40 mm wide
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4. Style 1 per flower; many species twining vines, some trailing or shrubs, and leaves small to large, to 250 mm wide
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5. Calyx 15-28 mm long; corolla 80 mm wide or long; fruit 12-20 mm wide or long
5. Calyx 2-9(11) mm long; corolla 7-20(25) mm wide and long; fruit 2-9 mm wide or long
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6. Each style 2-cleft or 2-fid for ½ or more of its length; stigmas 4, linear to subclavate
6. Each style not split or scarcely so; stigmas 2, capitate or peltate
7. Stigma or the lobes elongated (cylindric to linear)
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7. Stigma or the lobes capitate or globose
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8. Stems hairy, hairs usually branched, glandular, or stellate, sometimes simple
8. Stems glabrous to hairy, hairs unbranched, eglandular, not stellate
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9. Sepals 12-34 mm long; stigma lobes linear to oblong, apices blunt; ovary 1-locular
9. Sepals 3-5 mm long; stigma lobes cylindric to spatulate, apices acute; ovary 2-locular
10. Anthers twisted after dehiscence; pollen usually 3-9-colpate
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10. Anthers straight after dehiscence; pollen rugate or echinate
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11. Leaves unlobed, not compound (the blade basally cordate); inflorescence usually with 3-20 flowers in an umbelliform cluster
11. Leaves compound or palmately lobed; inflorescence with 2-9 flowers in cymes or flower solitary
12. Sepals accrescent, completely enclosing undehisced fruit or nearly so; corolla 25-30 mm long
12. Sepals not accrescent, not completely enclosing fruit; corolla 20-80(15) mm long