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Solanum ciliatum

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Identification
Solanum ciliatum Lam. [family SOLANACEAE ]
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  • Solanum ciliatum

Flora

Entry for SOLANUM aculeatissimum Jacq. [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 aculeatissimum Jacq. [family SOLANACEAE], Coll. i. 100;—Ic. t. 41; Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 128, 146; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 442; Sendtner in Mart. Fl. Bras. x. 59; Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 244; A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ii. 230; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 237; Hemsl. Biol. Amer. Centr. ii. 404.
SOLANUM ciliatum Lam. [family SOLANACEAE], Ill. ii. 21.
SOLANUM myriacanthum Dunal [family SOLANACEAE], Hist. Sol. 218, t. 19.
Information
a subshrub, 2–3 ft. high, bearing numerous long straight subulate spines on all its parts; branches pilose when young; leaves ovate-oblong, more or less cordate at the base, up to 4 in. long and nearly as wide, irregularly lobed, pilose on both surfaces; lobes acute, usually toothed or sinuate; petiole up to 2 in. long; cymes racemose, few-flowered; calyx cupular; lobes 5, narrowly lanceolate; corolla 9 lin. in diam., white; lobes lanceolate, acute; filaments very short; anthers lanceolate-oblong, 3 lin. long, with 2 small terminal pores; style 5 lin. long; fruit globose, smooth, 1 in. in diam., orange-red. null
Range
Also in the Southern United States, Central and Tropical South America, the West Indies, Tropical Africa, and Malay Peninsula and Archipelago.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; on Bosch Berg, 2500 ft. MacOwan! Burchell, 3239!COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens Berg, under 1000 ft., Drège!EASTERN REGION Transkei; between Gekau (Geua) River and Bashee River, 1000–2000 ft., Drège! Natal; near Durban, 50 ft., Wood, 5718! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1147! MacOwan!KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; Moordrai, near Van Reenan's Pass, 5500 ft., Wood, 4515! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1026!

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