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Solanum didymanthum

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Solanum didymanthum Dunal [family SOLANACEAE]
Solanum didymanthum Dunal [family SOLANACEAE]
Solanum didymanthum Dunal [family SOLANACEAE]
Isotype? of Solanum didymanthum Dunal var. plurifolium [family SOLANACEAE]
Solanum didymanthum Dunal [family SOLANACEAE]
Solanum didymanthum Dunal [family SOLANACEAE]
Holotype of Solanum didymanthum Dunal [family SOLANACEAE]
Isotype of Solanum didymanthum Dunal variety pluriflorum Dunal [family SOLANACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Solanum didymanthum Dunal [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Solanum didymanthum Dunal [family SOLANACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Solanum chenopodioides
  • Solanum germiniflorum
  • Solanum didymanthum

Flora

Entry for SOLANUM didymanthum Dunal var. pluriflorum [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 didymanthum Dunal var. pluriflorum [family SOLANACEAE], in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 290
SOLANUM geminiflorum E. Meyer [family SOLANACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 158, not of Mart. & Gal.
SOLANUM chenopodioides Krauss ex Dunal [family SOLANACEAE], l.c., not of Lam.
Information
branches minutely glandular verrucose; spines few, conical, 1/2–1 lin. long, dull brown; leaves up to 3 1/2 in. by 2 1/4 in., ovate-anceolate, acute at both ends, sinuately 5–7-lobed; lobes acute, stellately hairy on both surfaces, more densely so beneath; cymes at length racemose, 4–8-flowered; pedicels 6 lin. long, thickened upwards, stellately hairy; calyx 5-partite, stellately hairy; lobes lanceolate, long cuspidate, 2 lin. long; corolla 5–9 lin. in diam., plicate, hairy outside; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, pink (Wood); stamens 5; filaments 1/3 lin. long; anthers 3 lin. long, oblong-linear, with two small apical pores; style much longer than the stamens, curved at the apex, stellately hairy below; berry glabrous, fuscous. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; borders of woods near Umlazi River, Krauss, 173! Umlazi River, under 500 ft., Drège! Inanda, Wood, 1623! Var. β, Natal; without precise locality, Mrs. K. Saunders!
Notes
I have seen no specimens with as few as 2 flowers, which Dunal (l.c.) gives as a character of his S. didymanthum. Dunal founded his species upon S. geminiflorum, E. Meyer, the Kew specimen of which has a 5-flowered inflorescence.

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