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Solanum dasyphyllum

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Name

Identification
Solanum dasyphyllum Schumach. & Thonn. [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by R.N. Lester, Solanum dasyphyllum Schumach. & Thonn. [family SOLANACEAE ] Verified by Vorontsova, M., Solanum dasyphyllum Schumach. & Thonn. [family SOLANACEAE ] Verified by Vorontsova, M.,
Related name
  • Solanum decaisneanum
  • Solanum hirsutissimum
  • Solanum dasyphyllum
  • `
  • Solanum duplosinuatum
  • Solanum kilimandschari
  • Solanum afzelii
  • Solanum sapinii
  • Solanum unrecorded
  • Solanum duplo-sinuatum
  • Solanum sp.
  • Solanum macrocarpon
Common name
  • bussú (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, SUSU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • Leone) jakato-brurε (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, FULA-PULAAR (Sierra), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • gbag (?) (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, BULOM (Kim)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • gbσ (FCD) kpσ-gbegbe (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, GOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • (Guinea-Bissau) ede (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, FULA-PULAAR), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • brémbè (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, PEPEL), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • diakhatu (JMD) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for SOLANUM dasyphyllum Schumach. [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 dasyphyllum Schumach. [family SOLANACEAE], (1828).
Information
Perennial herb up to c. 1(–1.5) m tall, all parts with prickles, younger parts with stiff or soft hairs. Leaves alternate, of comparable size in all parts of plants; petiole 1–2 cm long, poorly distinguished from the decurrent blade; blade 18–25 x 14–18 cm, obovate, deeply lobed with irregularly serrate lobes, with acute apex, armed with strong straight prickles on main nerves, with long straight soft hairs on both sides and stellate hairs below. Inflorescences lateral, partly umbel-like cymes, with one bisexual basal flower near stem and 3–5(–8) functionally male flowers inserted at nearly same level on up to c. 4 cm long rachis; pedicels 0.4–1.5 cm long, armed with prickles. Calyx 1.2–1.6 cm long, at first with numerous stiff hairs, later with strong prickles; lobes long-acuminate, elongating in fruit to c. 2.7 cm. Corolla pale purple, rotate-stellate, 3–4 cm in diam. Anthers c. 8 mm long. Style in basal flower exceeding anthers with c. 5 mm. Fruit yellowish-green, yellow or white, 3.5–5(–5.5) cm in diam.
Range
S3 widespread in humid parts of Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia and Somalia and south to South Africa.
Altitude range
c. 30 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Maunder 94.
Notes
S. dasyphyllum is closely related to S. macrocarpon L., which is generally glabrous and unarmed, but sometimes sparsely hairy and/or with a few prickles on the main stem, and with fruit up to 8 cm in diameter. S. macrocarpon is only known as a cultivated or escaped plant.

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