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Solanum auriculatum

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Identification
Solanum auriculatum Not on sheet. [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Solanum hebecarpum
  • Solanum verbascifolium
  • Solanum mauritianum
  • Solanum granulosoleprosum
  • Solanum granuloso-leprosum
  • Solanum auriculatum

Flora

Entry for SOLANUM auriculatum Ait. [family SOLANACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 87, (1904) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
SOLANUM auriculatum Ait. [family SOLANACEAE], Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 246;—Dunal, Sol. Syn. 17, and in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 115; Sendtner in Mart. Fl. Bras. x. 40; Baker, Fl. Maur. 215; Hemsl. Biol. Amer. Centr. ii. 405.
SOLANUM tabaccifolium Vell. [family SOLANACEAE], Fl. Flum. ii. t. 89.
Information
an unarmed shrub, 15 ft. high; branches, inflorescence, petiole and underside of leaves densely covered with stellate floccose tomentum; leaves ovate or ovate oblong, 9 in. by 3 1/2 in., velvety with stellate hairs on the upper surface, acuminate, cuneate at the base; petiole 1 1/2 in. long; young axillary leaves semicircular, recurved and resembling stipules; inflorescence terminal, corymbose; peduncle 4 in. long; calyx-tube campanulate, 1 1/2 lin. long; lobes triangular, obtuse, 1 lin. long; corolla violet, glabrous inside, 6 lin. in diam.; tube 1 lin. long; lobes triangular, acute; filaments very short; anthers 1 1/2 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, dehiscing by two oblique apical pores; ovary densely clothed with straight simple hairs; style much overtopping the stamens, clavate at the apex; fruit globose, 8 lin. in diam. null
Range
Also in the Mascarene Islands, and Central and South Tropical America.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; edge of bush near Durban, 100 ft., Wood, 119! 1298! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1222!

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