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Solanum mannii

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Name

Identification
Solanum anomalum Thonn. [family SOLANACEAE ] Verified by Vorontsova, M., Solanum anomalum Thonn. [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by H. Heine, Solanum mannii C.H.Wright [family SOLANACEAE ] Solanum anomalum Bitter [family SOLANACEAE ] Verified by Vorontsova, M., Isotype of Solanum anomalum Bitter [family SOLANACEAE ] Verified by Richard Neville Lester,
Related name
  • Solanum mannii
  • Solanum torvum
  • Solanum marquesii
  • Solanum anomalum
  • Solanum unrecorded

Flora

Entry for SOLANUM torvum Sw. [family SOLANACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 207, (1905) Author: (By C. H. Wright.)
Names
SOLANUM torvum Sw. [family SOLANACEAE], Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 47. —Dunal, Hist. Sol. 203, t. 23, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 260; Wight, Ic. t. 345; Lowther in Journ. Agri.-Hort. Soc. India, xi. (1861) 290; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 234; Kew Bulletin, 1896, 63.
SOLANUM stramonifolium Roxb. [family SOLANACEAE], Fl. Ind. i. 572.
SOLANUM ferrugineum Jacq. [family SOLANACEAE], Hort. Schoenbr. iii. 46, t. 334.
SOLANUM Mannii C. H. Wright [family SOLANACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 129.
Information
A shrub, 3–10 ft. high. Branches terete, covered with white stellate tomentum when young; spines compressed, 1/4 in. long. Leaves geminate (one much smaller), ovate, 6 in. long, 4 in. wide, more or less pinnately lobed, unequal at the base; petiole 1 in. long, spiny. Cymes extra-axillary, much branched, at first nearly umbellate; pedicels with glandular hairs. Calyx cupular, glandular hairy; segments lanceolate. Corolla rotate, white, 1 in. in diam., stellately hairy outside in bud; lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate. Filaments 1 lin. long; anthers 1/4 in. long, linear-lanceolate; pores terminal, small. Ovary globose, glabrous; style longer than the stamens, curved. Berry globose, 1/3 in. in diam.
Distribution
Fernando Po Upper Guinea Mann, 55!Gaboon Lower Guinea Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 329!

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