Convolvulus oxyphyllus Boiss.
A very variable undershrub 25-50 cm high from a woody rootstock, with woody, branches which are usually spinescent, vegetative parts usually densely white-tomentellous to villous but indumentum sometimes very short; side branches long and slender, reaching 30cm or short, stout and spinescent.
Basal leaves sessile 0.7-2.5 (-4.5) × 0.3-0.7, oblong-lanceolate, apex acute and mucronate, margin entire, narrowed to a petiole-like base, both surfaces tomentose to tomentellous, but the adaxial surface often greener; stem leaves and bracts smaller than the lower leaves, commonly ovate, acute to apiculate.
Flowers 1-several in numerous subsessile villous axillary capitula (very rarely helicoid cymose in form), forming an elongate spicate inflorescence; peduncles absent, bracteoles 3.5-8 × 1.5-3 mm, lanceolate to oblong, acute; outer sepals 5-8 × 2-3.5, narrowly elliptic to oblong-obovate, acute, villous; inner sepals slightly narrower; corolla 1-1.4 cm, white or pink, weakly lobed, midpetaline bands pilose; ovary and style pilose; style divided c 5 mm above base, the stigmas 2.5 mm long.
Capsule not known.
its native range is Iraq, Iran, Arabian Peninsula.