6. Bonamia Thouars, Hist. Vég. Îles France. 33, plate 8. 1804. name conserved.
Lady’s nightcap [For François Bonami, 1710–1786, French physician and botanist]
Daniel F. Austin†
Perennials or subshrubs, [annuals]. Stems procumbent, prostrate, suberect, or trailing, hairy or glabrous. Leaves sessile or petiolate; blade oblong-ovate, orbiculate, or ovate, 10–30 mm, surfaces glabrous or hairy. Inflorescences usually solitary flowers, sometimes cymose. Flowers: sepals lanceolate, lance-ovate, oblong-ovate, or ovate, [elliptic to orbiculate], 9–28 mm, equal or unequal; corolla blue or blue-purple with white center and tube [pink, red, yellow, or white], funnelform [campanulate], 35–85 mm, limb 5-lobed [subentire or entire]; styles 2, connate from base to 1/2–3/4 length [distinct]; stigmas globose. Fruits capsular, conic to globose, dehiscence valvate [indehiscent]. Seeds 1–4(–6), globose to ovoid, glabrous or glabrate [villous or ciliate].
Species 30–45 (2 in the flora): sc, se United States, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America, Africa, Pacific Islands (Hawaii).
SELECTED REFERENCE Myint, T. and D. B. Ward. 1968. A taxonomic revision of the genus Bonamia (Convolvulaceae). Phytologia 17: 121–239.
