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Solanum polyanthemum

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Name

Identification
Solanum schimperianum Hochst. [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Vorontsova, M., Solanum schimperianum Hochst. [family SOLANACEAE ] Verified by Richard Neville Lester, Solanum polyanthemum Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family SOLANACEAE ] Verified by Richard Neville Lester,
Related name
  • Solanum polyanthemum
  • Solanum polynthemum
  • Solanum schimperianum

Flora

Entry for SOLANUM polyanthemum Hochst. ex Dunal [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 polyanthemum Hochst. ex Dunal [family SOLANACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 94.
Information
A shrub. Branches subdichotomous, flexuose, covered with ochraceous stellate hairs. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, up to 3 in. by 1 1/2 in., stellately hairy above, more densely so beneath; petiole up to 1 in. long. Cymes short, racemose, 2-fid, terminal or lateral; pedicels 3/4 in. long in fruit. Calyx cyathiform, 2 lin. long, stellately tomentose outside; tube very short; lobes oblong from a wide base. Corolla deeply 5-fid, stellately tomentose outside, glabrous inside; lobes ovate. Stamens 5, half as long as the corolla. Ovary globose, pubescent at the apex; stigma capitate. Berry globose, 5 lin. in diam., yellow?—Engl. Glied. Veg. Usambara, 26, and Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 352.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land near Acrur, 4300 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1004!Abyssinia Nile Land near Axum, Schimper, 1526!

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