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Identification
Nicandra physalodes (L.) Gaertn. [family SOLANACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for NICANDRA physalodes (L.) Gaertner [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
NICANDRA physalodes (L.) Gaertner [family SOLANACEAE], (1791);
Atropa physalodes L. [family SOLANACEAE], (1753). Fig. 139. [type as above]
Information
Plant up to 1 m or more tall. Leaves petiolate; blade ovate or elliptic, 4–20 x 2–15 cm, cuneate at the base, obtuse to acute at the apex, with coarsely sinuate-dentate or somewhat lobed margins. Pedicels 1.5–4 cm long. Calyx c. 15 mm in flower, up to c. 35 mm in fruit, with ovate acute lobes. Corolla blue, 2–4 cm in diam. Berry 1–2 cm in diam., brown. Seeds 1–1.2 mm in diam., pale brown.
Range
N2 native to Peru, cultivated as an ornamental, weedy and widely naturalised.
Altitude range
c. 1150–1750 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin, Abdi Dahir & Abdisalam Hassan 8920; Thulin 11021.
Distribution (external)
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Notes
First record for Somalia. The plant contains alkaloids and is in various parts of the world used in traditional medicine or as an insecticide.

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