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Solanum campylacanthum

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Identification
Solanum campylacanthum Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for SOLANUM campylacanthum Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family SOLANACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by J. Edmonds (Solanum, species 1–4), I. Friis (Solanum, species 5–11, 13–25), and M. Thulin (Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycium, Lycopersicon, Nicandra, Nicotiana, Physalis, Solanum species 12, Withania) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
SOLANUM campylacanthum Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family SOLANACEAE], (1850). Fig. 152E–G.
SOLANUM sennii Chiov. [family SOLANACEAE], (1932);. type: S3, “Colbio”, Senni 220 (FT holo.).
Information
Shrubs up to c. 1.5 m high, armed with long recurved or straight prickles on stems and leaves or sometimes unarmed, coarsely brownish-grey pubescent with stellate hairs. Leaves alternate, of comparable size throughout the plant; petiole 1–3.5 cm long, densely tomentose to floccose with stellate hairs; blade somewhat leathery, narrowly ovate to lanceolate or elliptic, 1.5–13 x 4–25 cm, base obtuse or cuneate to cordate, sometimes obliquely so, margin entire to slightly sinuate, apex acuminate to rounded, above dark green with scattered stellate hairs, pale brownish grey from dense stellate indumentum below. Inflorescences lateral, sometimes ± leaf-opposite, 5–10-flowered, with one basal bisexual flower near the stem and functionally male flowers along densely tomentose up to 5 cm long rachis; peduncle 0–1 cm long; pedicel of basal flower 1.5–3 cm long, elongating in fruit; pedicel of upper flowers 0.8–1.5 cm long. Calyx up to c. 1.5 cm long in basal flower, elongating after anthesis, with lanceolate c. 0. 8 cm long lobes; calyx in upper flowers c. 1 cm long, with narrowly lanceolate up to c. 0.7 cm long lobes. Corolla stellate, pale to dark purple, bluish purple or magenta, 2–3.2 cm across or sometimes smaller in functionally male flowers; lobes broadly lanceolate to ovate, acute. Anthers 6–8 mm long, subsessile. Style in basal flower exceeding the anthers with 1–2 mm, reduced in upper flowers. Fruits yellow, 1.5–3.5 cm in diam. Seeds brown.
Range
N2; C1; S1–3 widespread in tropical and southern Africa and tropical Arabia.
Altitude range
50–1700 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Barkhadle 274; Tardelli 425; O’Brien 49.
Notes
Spineless forms are most frequent in southern Somalia.

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