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Solanum saponaceum

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Name

Identification
Solanum saponaceum Dunal [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Llerd, 1941 Solanum scabrum Ruiz & Pav. [family SOLANACEAE ] Verified by Pavón, Solanum scabrum Ruiz & Pav. [family SOLANACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Solanum saponaceum
  • Solanum bonariense
  • Solanum platyphyllum
  • Solanum aculeastrum
  • Solanum albifolium
  • Solanum scabrum

Flora

Entry for SOLANUM albifolium C. H. Wright [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 albifolium C. H. Wright [family SOLANACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 127. —Hiern in Journ. Bot. 1895, 74, and Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw, i. 747.
SOLANUM saponaceum Welw. [family SOLANACEAE], Apont. Phyto-Geogr. 551, 588; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 232; Monteiro, Angola, ii. 111, not of Dunal.
Information
A shrub or small tree. Stem terete, when young clothed with white stellate hairs. Leaves pinnately lobed about halfway to the midrib, 5 in. long, 3 in. wide, dark green with a few deciduous stellate hairs above, densely tomentose with white stellate hairs beneath; petiole 1/2 in. long. Inflorescence nearly leaf-opposed, cymose. Calyx cupular, densely white stellate hairy outside; teeth 5, triangular, much shorter than the tube. Corolla rotate; lobes 5, linear, stellately hairy outside, pubescent along the midrib within. Stamens 5; anthers subsessile, lanceolate, pores small, terminal. Ovary globose, hairy; style short, subulate. Fruit globose, 5 lin. in diam., sulphur-coloured, smooth.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Golungo Alto; near Quibixe, Welwisch, 6095! 6095b! Bumbo: Chella Mountains, Welwitsch, 6040!
Notes
“Fruit used for washing cloths, &c., instead of soap.” Monteiro, l.c.

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