Compilation
Solanum marginatum

33 Images see all

Previous
Next

Name

Identification
Solanum marginatum Not on sheet. [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Solanum marginatum
  • Solanum coagulans
  • `
  • Solanum abyssinicum

Flora

Entry for SOLANUM marginatum Linn. [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 marginatum Linn. [family SOLANACEAE], f. Suppl. 147. —Jacq. Collect. i. 50, and Ic. t. 45; Murr. Comm. Gotting. vi. (1783), t. 4; Dunal, Hist. Solan. 215, t. 3, fig. A, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 370; Bot. Mag. t. 1928; Vatke in Linnæa, xliii. 332.
SOLANUM abyssinicum Jacq. ex Vitm. [family SOLANACEAE], Summa Pl. i. 492.
SOLANUM niveum All. ex Vitm. [family SOLANACEAE], l. c.
Information
A shrub, 3–4 ft. high. Stem terete, covered with white stellate tomentum; spines subulate, 1 in. long. Leaves ovate, pinnately lobed less than half-way to the midrib, subcordate at the base, coriaceous, 3–7 in. long, 2–5 in. wide, covered with fine white stellate pubescence which in age disappears from the upper surface except near the margin, spines on the principal veins often 1 in. long. Cymes extra-axillary, subumbellate; pedicels, outside of calyx and corolla covered with white stellate tomentum. Calyx campanulate, 4 lin. long, 5-fid, spiny; lobes narrow, acute. Corolla broadly campanulate, 1 1/4 in. in diam., white, centre and midrib pink. Stamens 5; filaments very short; anthers 1/4 in. long, pores terminal. Fruit globose, 1 1/2 in. in diam., shining yellow.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land near Adowa, Schimper, 181! Samen; Genausa, Schimper, 1316! Chelicut, Petit, 228!Eritrea Nile Land Saganeiti, Schweinfurth & Riva, 830! Hamasen; Sasega, Steudner, 716!

Related Materials