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Solanum erythrocarpon

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Type of Solanum erythrocarpon G.Mey. [family SOLANACEAE]

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Solanum erythrocarpon G.Mey. [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Knapp, S., 2009 Solanum americanum Mill. [family SOLANACEAE ] Verified by Knapp, S., 2009

Flora

Entry for SOLANUM nigrum Linn. [family SOLANACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Flora of Tropical Africa

Reference Sources

Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 207, (1905) Author: (By C. H. Wright.)

SOLANUM nigrum Linn. [family SOLANACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 186. —Mutel, Fl. Franc. tt. 39–40, figs. 296–303; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 50; Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 446; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 229; Vatke in Linnæa, xliii. 324; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 351; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 745, excl. var. guineense; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 89, excl.

SOLANUM nigrum Linn. var. guineese [family SOLANACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 186;

SOLANUM nigrum Linn. var. rubrum [family SOLANACEAE], Vatke, l.c. 325; Engl. l.c. 352.

SOLANUM villosum Mill. [family SOLANACEAE], Gard. Dict. ed. 8, n. 2; Engl. l.c.

SOLANUM rubrum Mill. [family SOLANACEAE], l.c. n. 4, not of Drège.

SOLANUM incertum Dunal [family SOLANACEAE], Hist. Sol. 155.

SOLANUM miniatum Bernh. ex Willd. [family SOLANACEAE], Enum. Hort. Berol. 236; Engl. l.c. 352.

SOLANUM retroflexum Dunal [family SOLANACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 50.

SOLANUM alatum Moench [family SOLANACEAE], Meth. 474; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 276.

SOLANUM erythrocarpon Meyer [family SOLANACEAE], Prim. Fl. Esseq. 109.

SOLANUM suffruticosum Schousb. [family SOLANACEAE], in Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 236.

SOLANUM plebeium A. Rich. [family SOLANACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 100; Vatke, l.c. 325; Engl. l.c. 352.

SOLANUM grossedentatum A. Rich. [family SOLANACEAE], l.c. 101; Schweinf. in Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, xv. (1865) 551.

An annual herb. Stem angular, more or less pubescent, up to 2 ft. high. Leaves ovate, obovate or lanceolate, sinuate-dentate, more rarely entire, tapering downwards into the petiole, more or less pubescent with simple hairs on both surfaces, up to 4 by 2 in., petiole up to 1 in. long. Cymes um-bellate, few-flowered: peduncle slender, 3/4 in. long; pedicels spreading in flower, pendulous in fruit. Calyx cup-shaped; lobes ovate, acute. Corolla rotate, white, 1/4 in. in diam.; lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute. Stamens equal; filaments short, cylindrical; anthers 1 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, with 2 oblique pores near the apex. Style slightly longer than the stamens, pubescent below. Berry globose, glabrous, 1/4 in. in diam., black, more rarely red or yellow.

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