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Convolvulaceae

A plant family of vines, food crops, and medicinal species.

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Convolvulaceae

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Convolvulaceae includes food plants like sweet potato and water spinach, as well as showy garden plants and troublesome weeds.[1][2] Ergoline alkaloids found in certain Convolvulaceae species are thought to cause their use in psychedelic preparations like ololiuhqui.[1]

Scientific classification

  1. CladeTracheophytes
  2. CladeAngiosperms
  3. CladeEudicots
  4. CladeAsterids
  5. OrderSolanales
  6. FamilyConvolvulaceae

Named by Juss.

Sources: Wikipedia taxobox: Convolvulaceae (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Quick Facts

Type genus
Convolvulus

Facts from the source article.

Key facts and history

The leaves and starchy, tuberous roots of some Convolvulaceae species are used as foodstuffs.[1] The seeds of some species are exploited for their medicinal value as purgatives.[1] A study of Ipomoea asarifolia showed a fungus identified by DNA sequencing was always associated with ergoline alkaloids in the plant.[1] Loline alkaloids, commonly produced by clavicipitaceous fungi, have been identified in a convolvulaceous species, but their origin there is unknown.[3]

Ergoline alkaloids in some Convolvulaceae species result from infection by fungi that are related to Claviceps ergot fungi.[1] The fungus identified is an obligate biotroph that is transmitted through seeds and grows epiphytically on the host plant.[1]

What the research sources say

A 2006 study in Planta reported the molecular characterization of a seed-transmitted clavicipitaceous fungus on Convolvulaceae.[1] A 2019 study in the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine provided an ethnobotanical analysis of parasitic plants in the Nepal Himalaya.[2] Loline alkaloids were reported in a convolvulaceous species in a 1999 Phytochemistry study, though the source of these alkaloids in that plant remains unknown.[3]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Convolvulaceae" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Molecular characterization of a seed transmitted clavicipitaceous fungus occurring on dicotyledoneous plants (Convolvulaceae)", Planta, 2006, p. 533–544 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Convolvulaceae" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: O'Neill, "An ethnobotanical analysis of parasitic plants (Parijibi) in the Nepal Himalaya", Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2019, p. 14 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Convolvulaceae" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Occurrence of loline alkaloids in Argyreia mollis (Convolvulaceae)", Phytochemistry, 1999, p. 1177–1180 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

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