- Source: Comesperma volubile
Comesperma volubile, commonly known as love creeper, is a slender climber in the family Polygalaceae. It is a twining plant with linear leaves and pea-like blue flowers.
Description
Comesperma voluble is a twining creeper to about 3 m (9.8 ft) high on rare occasion a small shrublet with smooth, angled stems. There are few leaves, linear to oval-shaped, 10–45 mm (0.39–1.77 in) long, 1.5–9 mm (0.059–0.354 in) wide, lower surface pale, margins curved or rolled under. The flowers are in lateral racemes 3–25 cm (1.2–9.8 in) long, the sepals are separated, outer three broadly oval-shaped, about 2 mm (0.079 in) long, wings oval-shaped to nearly orb-shaped, 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) long, keel darker, 3.5–5 mm (0.14–0.20 in) long, upper petals egg-shaped to oblong. Flowering occurs mainly August to November and the fruit is a narrow wedge-shaped capsule, 12–20 mm (0.47–0.79 in) long.
Taxonomy and naming
Comersperma voluble was first formally described in 1806 by Jacques Labillardière, and the description was published in Novæ Hollandiæ plantarum specimen. The specific epithet (volubile) means "twining".
Distribution and habitat
Love creeper occurs in heathland and forest in the states of Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, in Australia.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Comesperma volubile
- Comesperma
- Comesperma sphaerocarpum
- List of descriptive plant species epithets (I–Z)
- Melbourne Sandbelt
- Folland Park
- McKay Reserve, Palm Beach, New South Wales
- List of Australia-New Guinea species extinct in the Holocene
