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Solanum delagoense

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Name

Identification
Solanum delagoense Dunal [family SOLANACEAE ]
Related name
  • Solanum delagoense

Flora

Entry for SOLANUM panduræforme E. Meyer [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 panduræforme E. Meyer [family SOLANACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 147;—Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 370.
SOLANUM delagoense Dunal [family SOLANACEAE], l.c. 349.
Information
a much-branched shrub; spines few or many, short, subulate from a broad base; branches terete, densely stellately pubescent; leaves oblong-lanceolate, sinuate, 2 3/4 in. by 1 in., stellately pubescent on both surfaces, sometimes spiny on the underside of the midrib, acute, tapering to the base; petiole 6 lin. long; cymes racemose, the lowest flower alone fertile; calyx 3 lin. long, 5-toothed or deeply 5-lobed (sometimes on the same plant), stellately pubescent outside; lobes obtuse; corolla 1 in. in diam., pink (Wood), 5-partite, stellately pubescent outside; lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute, hairy on the midrib inside; stamens 5; filaments very short; anthers 2 1/2 lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, with 2 small apical pores; ovary ovoid, hirsute at the apex; style 5 lin. long, thickened upwards, stellately hairy at the base; fruit 9 lin. in diam., globose, smooth, yellow. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Transkei; near Bashee River, under 1000 ft., Drège! Kreilis Country, Bowker! Tembuland; Cenduli, near Bazeia, Baur, 749! Griqualand East; Clydesdale, 2500 ft., Tyson, 2133! and in MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr. 1218! Natal; Umlaas (Umlazi) River, 2000 ft., Wood, 1831! between Pietermaritzburg and Greytown, Wilms, 2166! near Durban, Krauss, 102! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 52! Delagoa Bay, Forbes!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; banks of the Vaal and Harts River, Holub! Orange River Colony; Modder (Muddy) River, Burke! Bechuanaland; Barolong Territory, Holub! Transvaal; Aapies Poort, near Pretoria, Rehmann, 4128! 4129! Jeppestown Ridges, near Johannesburg, 6000 ft., Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 6056! 6239! by Kaup River, near Barberton, 1200 ft., Bolus, 9714! Magalies Berg, Burke! near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1019!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher, 1258!

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