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Calystegia silvatica (Kit.) Griseb.

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Griseb.
Kit.
(Kit.) Griseb.
1844
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Calystegia silvatica

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silvatica

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Calystegia silvatica (Kit.) Griseb.

Rhizomes extensive and far-creeping. Stems glabrous, vigorously twining, often tinged purple where exposed to sunlight. Petioles 3-11 cm long, usually glabrous, sometimes hairy. Lamina 5-18 × 3.5-15 cm, triangular-ovate, sagittate-ovate or hastate, usually glabrous; base deeply cordate with rounded sinus and 1-2 small lobes on each side; apex acute to acuminate. Fls solitary; peduncles 8-20-(30) cm long, usually narrowly winged. Bracts at anthesis imbricate, 2-3.4 × 1.8-3.6 cm, broad-ovate, slightly > calyx; base cordate; apex acute to mucronate. Sepals 1.5-1.8 cm long, ± ovate-lanceolate. Corolla 5.2-8 cm long and 5.5-8 cm diam. across limb, usually white, very rarely pale pink; lobes very shallow and inconspicuous; mid-petaline area of tube shining outside. Stamens c. 3 cm long; filaments with glandular hairs in lower 1/2. Ovary 1-locular. Style glabrous, = or slightly > stamens. Capsule 1-1.5 cm long, subglobose. Seeds 4-5 mm diam., ± triangular-ovoid with rounded outer surface and slightly concave inner faces, smooth, black.

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Calystegia silvatica (Kit.) Griseb.
Calystegia silvatica (Kit.) Griseb.
Calystegia silvatica (Kit.) Griseb.
Calystegia silvatica (Kit.) Griseb.
Calystegia silvatica (Kit.) Griseb.
Calystegia silvatica (Kit.) Griseb.
Calystegia silvatica (Kit.) Griseb.
Calystegia silvatica (Kit.) Griseb.
Calystegia silvatica (Kit.) Griseb.
Calystegia silvatica (Kit.) Griseb.
Calystegia silvatica (Kit.) Griseb.
Calystegia silvatica (Kit.) Griseb.
Calystegia silvatica (Kit.) Griseb.
Calystegia sylvestris (Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd.) Roem. & Schult.
Calystegia silvatica (Kit.) Griseb.

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Calystegia silvatica (Kit.) Griseb.
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1f08de1c-2ebe-46d3-aa85-4c240697ed6a
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1 January 2000
14 February 2006
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