Convolvulaceae
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JANAS 30(2)
PLANTS: Trees, shrubs, herbs, or vines, the sap milky in some species; rootstocks swollen and fleshy to fibrous. LEAVES: simple, entire to pinnately lobed, pectinate, or palmately compound, exstipulate. INFLORESCENCE: axillary cymes, racemes, panicles, or flowers solitary. FLOWERS: perfect (in ours), actinomorphic, hypogynous, small and inconspicuous to large and showy, but mostly wilting quickly; sepals 5, distinct, imbricate, equal or unequal, persistent, occasionally accrescent in fruit; petals 5 united; stamens 5, distinct, epipetalous; pistil of 2-3(-6) carpels, the ovary 1-4-locular, the styles 1-2, the stigmas variable. FRUITS: capsules, utricles, or baccate. SEEDS: 1-4, glabrous or pubescent. NOTES: About 55 genera, 1200 spp.; most common in the tropics and sub-tropics. Includes sweet potato REFERENCES: Austin, Daniel F. 1998. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Convolvulaceae 30(2): 61.
Duration: Perennial Nativity: Native Lifeform: Vine
Species within checklist: Flora of Federal Protected Areas, Desert West || << 1 - 50 taxa >>
Bonamia ovalifolia
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Bonamia repens
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Calystegia longipes
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Calystegia macounii
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Calystegia pellita
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Calystegia sepium
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Convolvulus arvensis
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Convolvulus equitans
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Cressa depressa
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Cressa truxillensis
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Cuscuta applanata
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Cuscuta attenuata
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Cuscuta californica
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Cuscuta campestris
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Cuscuta coryli
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Cuscuta cuspidata
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Cuscuta dentatasquamata
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Cuscuta denticulata
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Cuscuta erosa
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Cuscuta exaltata
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Cuscuta glomerata
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Cuscuta gronovii
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Cuscuta indecora
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Cuscuta leptantha
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Cuscuta mitriformis
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Cuscuta pentagona
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Cuscuta potosina
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Cuscuta salina
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Cuscuta squamata
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Cuscuta tuberculata
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Cuscuta umbellata
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Dichondra argentea
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Dichondra brachypoda
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Dichondra carolinensis
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Evolvulus alsinoides
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Evolvulus arizonicus
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Evolvulus laetus
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Evolvulus nuttallianus
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Evolvulus pilosus
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Evolvulus sericeus
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Ipomoea barbatisepala
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Ipomoea capillacea
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Ipomoea cardiophylla
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Ipomoea coccinea
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Ipomoea cordatotriloba
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Ipomoea costellata
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Ipomoea cristulata
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Ipomoea hederacea
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Ipomoea hederifolia
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Ipomoea lacunosa
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