View source for Evolvulus ← Evolvulus You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Evolvulus |accepted_authority=Linnaeus |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Sp. Pl. ed. |place=2, 1: 391. 1762 |year=1762 }} |common_names=Dwarf morning glory |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Convolvulaceae;Evolvulus |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Convolvulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Evolvulus]]</div></div> |etymology=Latin evolvo, not twisting, alluding to nontwining habit, as contrasted with Convolvulus |volume=Volume 14 |mention_page= |treatment_page= }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> perennials, or subshrubs. <b>Stems</b> ascending, decumbent, erect, procumbent, or prostrate, glabrous, glabrate, or hairy. <b>Leaves</b>: sessile or subsessile; blade elliptic, lanceolate, linear, oblanceolate, oblong, orbiculate, or ovate, 2–35 mm, surfaces glabrate, glabrous, or hairy. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2 or 3+-flowered cymes or flowers solitary. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals lance-linear, lanceolate, lanceolate-ovate, oblong, or ovate, 2–6 mm; corolla usually blue, lavender, purple, or white, rarely violet, campanulate, funnelform, or rotate, 3–15+ mm, limb 5-angled or -lobed to subentire, 5–12(–22) mm diam.; styles 2, distinct or basally connate, each 2-fid 1/2+ length; stigma lobes 4, filiform to subclavate. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, globose to ovoid, dehiscence circumscissle or valvate. <b>Seeds</b> 1–4, complanate to ± globose, glabrous, surfaces smooth or verrucose. <b>x</b> = 13.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced in Europe;Africa;Asia;Australia. |discussion=<p>Species ca. 100 (7 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>A record of Evolvulus nummularius (Linnaeus) Linnaeus for Florida is based on Rugel 108 (US), which is probably from Cuba (D. B. Ward 1968b).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Peduncles plus pedicels filiform, (8–)12–50+ mm. |[[#key-0-2| > 2]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Herbage glabrous or sparsely hairy and glabrescent, hairs appressed; stems usually procumbent or prostrate, sometimes decumbent. |[[Evolvulus convolvuloides|Evolvulus convolvuloides]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Herbage usually hairy, hairs ± appressed to spreading, sometimes tomentose; stems usually ascending, decumbent, or erect, rarely procumbent. |[[#key-0-3| > 3]] |-id=key-0-3 |3 |Leaf blades lanceolate, lance-linear, or linear; sepals lanceolate to lance-linear, 3–3.5 mm, abaxially pilose to tomentose; corolla limbs (10–)12–22 mm diam. |[[Evolvulus arizonicus|Evolvulus arizonicus]] |-id=key-0-3 |3 |Leaf blades elliptic, lanceolate, oblong, or ovate; sepals lanceolate, 2–2.5 mm, abaxially glabrous or pilose; corolla limbs (5–)7–10 mm diam. |[[Evolvulus alsinoides|Evolvulus alsinoides]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Peduncles plus pedicels stout, 0–2(–5+) mm. |[[#key-0-4| > 4]] |-id=key-0-4 |4 |Leaves distichous. |[[#key-0-5| > 5]] |-id=key-0-5 |5 |Stems decumbent to prostrate; leaf blades usually ovate to broadly ovate, sometimes suborbiculate, 5–8(–10) × 4–7 mm. |[[Evolvulus grisebachii|Evolvulus grisebachii]] |-id=key-0-5 |5 |Stems ascending or procumbent; leaf blades elliptic, lanceolate, oblong, or ovate, 4–25 × 2–10 mm. |[[Evolvulus sericeus|Evolvulus sericeus]] |-id=key-0-4 |4 |Leaves pentastichous. |[[#key-0-6| > 6]] |-id=key-0-6 |6 |Internodes usually 4+ mm; leaf blades elliptic to linear; outer sepals ovate, 3–4 mm; rhizomatous perennial. |[[Evolvulus arenarius|Evolvulus arenarius]] |-id=key-0-6 |6 |Internodes rarely 4+ mm; leaf blades usually elliptic, sometimes linear-oblong or narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, rarely oblong; outer sepals lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 4–5 mm; subshrub. |[[Evolvulus nuttallianus|Evolvulus nuttallianus]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Evolvulus |author=Daniel F. Austin† |authority=Linnaeus |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Convolvulaceae |distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced in Europe;Africa;Asia;Australia. |reference=None |publication title=Sp. Pl. ed. |publication year=1762 |special status= |source xml= |genus=Evolvulus }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Convolvulaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Convolvulaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Evolvulus.