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|accepted_name=Argyreia
|accepted_authority=Loureiro
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Cochinch.
|place=1: 95, 134. 1790
|year=1790
}}
|common_names=Elephant creeper;Hawaiian wood-rose
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Convolvulaceae;Argyreia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Convolvulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Argyreia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek argyros, silver, alluding to abaxial leaf surface appearance
|volume=Volume 14
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials.</b> Stems twining-climbing, white-hairy when young, glabrescent. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate; blade ± cordate-ovate, [40–]180–270 mm; surfaces: abaxial white-hairy, adaxial glabrous or glabrate. <b>Inflorescences</b> cymose. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals ovate [various], [3–]15–20 mm; corolla lavender [purple, red, rose, or white], funnelform [campanulate or tubular], [30–]60–65[–85] mm, limb 5-lobed to nearly entire; styles 1; stigmas 2, globose. <b>Fruits</b> berrylike, ellipsoid to globose, fleshy, indehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> 1–4, ovoid, usually glabrous, rarely hairy on hilum. <b>x</b> = 15.</span><!--

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|distribution=Florida;Asia;Australia;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (Venezuela);Africa.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 90 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Argyreias are widely cultivated.</p>
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name=Argyreia
|author=Daniel F. Austin†
|authority=Loureiro
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Convolvulaceae
|distribution=Florida;Asia;Australia;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (Venezuela);Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Cochinch.
|publication year=1790
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V14/V14_578.xml
|genus=Argyreia
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