Flora of Micronesia, Convolvulaceae
Fosberg, F. Raymond; Sachet, Marie-Hélène (1977). Flora of Micronesia, Convolvulaceae. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.131793.
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'Abstract: GILBERT B^^a^ai(Makin) islands K u r I a,j^A bem a ma. NauruBanaba-(Ocean) AranukaNonouti-Ti shaped, lobed to I/ 3 -I /2 it® length, lobes semi- circular, slightly overlapping at sinuses; corolla tube broad, included, lobes about equalling tube, exserted, ovate, obtusish but mucronulate, tending to be reflexed, about 1 mm long; scales with several blunt linear processes on each side of fila- ment; stamens exserted, filaments inserted in sinuses, anthers broadly elliptic, curved, about 0.6 mm long, filaments about as long; ovary with apex depressed, styles filiform, about 1 mm long, stigmas capitate; fruit depressed globose, about 2.5 mm across, with a large hole in top between persistent styles; walls hyaline translucent; seeds about 1 mm across, subglobose with concavities from crowding, dark dull brown with black spot (hilum?), surface dull, cellular-reticulate.Recently adventive, native of North America, widespread but not too common in the south Pacific from Indonesia to Fiji, Tahiti, Tuamotus, and Christmas Island.Said to have been broughtto Yap from Hawaii, but this seems unlikely, as another distinct species, C. sandwichiana is the one found there.Parasitic on Vigna marina and grasses along lagoon beach.Use.-
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