Glabrous, twining perennial. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, 3–10 cm long, 1.5–8 cm wide, apex acuminate, base sagittate to hastate, margins undulate, basal lobes toothed or shallowly lobed; petiole 2–8 cm long. Flowers with peduncles to c. 8 cm long, equal to or shorter than the petioles; bracteoles more or less orbicular, 6–10(–12) mm long, apex rounded to emarginate, often minutely mucronate, equal to or longer than calyx; sepals 5–7 mm long; corolla c. 2 cm long, white to pale mauve. Capsule globose, 5–7 mm long. Flowers spring and summer.
VVP, GipP, OtP, WaP, GGr, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, HFE, VAlp. Also Qld, NSW (including Lord Howe Island). New Zealand. A slender twiner of moist forests, gullies and riparian herbage.
Source:
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Convolvulaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 365–375. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
