Pergularia tomentosa L.

Twining shrub with milky juice, branches covered with dense ash-coloured pubescence. Leaves 1.5-3.5 x 1-3 cm, cordate, pubescent to sub-glabrous above, pubescent or velvety below, petiole 4-12 mm long. Flowers in umbelloid cymes; peduncle 1-2 cm long, solitary at nodes, between the petioles. Pedicel 1.0-2.5 cm long. Sepals 2.5-3.5 mm long, pubescent, glandular within. Corolla dull white tinged with pink, 7.5-10 mm long, tube c. 2.5 mm long, lobes c. 7 mm long, hairy outside. Follicles 5-7.5 x 1.2-1.3 cm, tapering towards the apex softly echinulate.

Distribution: Pakistan (Makran, Sind), Afghanistan, Iran, Arabia, Egypt and Libya.

Fl. Per: March-July.