Convolvulaceae

Convolvulaceae Juss., Gen. Pl. 132. 1789. nom. cons. 'Morning Glory Family'

Characteristic Features:

Often dextrose twinning vines, or shrubs, or trees
Leaves simple, spiral
Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, infundibular,with gamopetalos corolla showing involute aestivation

Diversity:

World- 67 genera 1,296 species (The Plant List 2013); 53 genera, 1,660 species (Christenhusz & Byng 2016); 55 genera, 1850 species (Mabberely 2017); 50 genera, 1910 species (CoL 2021)
India - 29 genera 199 species (Karthikeyan 2000); 25 genera, 180 species (BSI, 2021)
Indian Himalaya- 16 genera, 77 species (Singh et al. 2019)
Uttarakhand - 9 genera 39 species (Uniyal et al. 2007)

General Characters:

Convolvulaceae in Watson & Dallwitz (1992 onwards)
Convolvulaceae in Stevens (2001 onwards)
Convolvulaceae in POWO 2021 (Plants of the World Online)
Convolvulaceae in Wikipedia

Systematic Position of the Family in Different Systems of Classifications:

Systematic position in 2-Superkingdom, 7-Kingdom classification of Ruggiero et al. (2015)

Super Kingdom- Eukaryota, Kingdom- Plantae, Subkingdom- Viridiplantae, Infrakingdom- Streptophyta, Superphylum- Embryophyta, Phylum- Tracheophyta, Subphylum- Spermatophytina, Superclass- Angiospermae, Class- Magnoliopsida, Superorder- Asteranae, Order- Solanales