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Calystegia marginata

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

R. Brown

Common Names

• Forest Bindweed
• Small-flowered White Bindweed

Geographical Habitats

• SE. Queensland
• New South Wales
• Victoria
• Norfolk Island
• Tasmania - Australia
• North Island - New Zealand

Natural Habitats

• Shady gullies
• riverside
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Oct-Jan

Fruiting Times

Perennial woody glabrous twining herbaceous climber or trailer with creeping rhizome, twining or prostrate stems. Sagittate leaves to 80mm x 45mm with slightly toothed basal lobes. Solitary 30mm white flowers with bracts to 10mm long, sepals to 10mm long, corolla to 15mm x 12mm. Fruit a 6mm diameter globose capsule,

Somewhat weedy.

Further References

• Jones & Gray 1977
• Given 1981
• FONZ
• Bodkin
• G. Don
• FA
• Botanicus
• Kew
• PFNHI
• NZPCN