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Solanum tomentosum

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Solanum tomentosum L. [family SOLANACEAE ]
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Entry for SOLANUM tomentosum Linn. [family SOLANACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 87, (1904) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
SOLANUM tomentosum Linn. [family SOLANACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 188, ed. 2, 269;—Thunb. Prodr. 36, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 189; Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 62, 64, 93, 124, and in Linnæa, xx. 203 (incl. var. macrophyllum, Nees); Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 299.
Information
a shrub 1 1/2–2 ft. high, densely clothed in all its parts with yellowish stellate hairs; branches terete; spines 1–2 lin. long, subulate, straight or very slightly curved; leaves ovate, sinuate, more rarely entire, obtuse, unequal and rounded or cordate at the base, 1–3 in. long, 1/2–2 in. broad, unarmed or with a few spines on the midrib; cymes umbellate, few-flowered; peduncle short; pedicels thickened upwards; calyx 3 lin. in diam., spiny outside; tube campanulate; lobes unequal, oblong, obtuse; corolla deep purple (Galpin), blue (Dunal), 6 lin. in diam.; lobes ovate, acute; filaments short; anthers 1 1/2 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, with 2 small apical pores; style straight, filiform, hairy below, longer than the stamens; fruit globose, up to 9 lin. in diam., at first stellately hairy, finally glabrous. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Prince Albert Div.; Great Zwarte Bergen, near Vrolyk, 3000–4000 ft., Drège! Somerset Div.; at Platte River, Burchell, 2958! Beaufort West Div.; Nieuwveld Mountains, near Beaufort West, 3000–5000 ft., Drège! Colesberg Div.; near Colesberg, Shaw! Var. β, Calvinia Div.; Brand Vley, Johanssen, 23! Frazerberg Div.; at Dwaal River, Burchell, 1467!COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Zekoe Vley, 400 ft., Schlechter, 8500! Worcester Div.; mountains above Worcester, Rehmann, 2465! Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountain, Drège! Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Thunberg! Camps Bay, Burchell, 373! Caledon Div.? Ezeljagts Poort, Lady Barkly! Swellendam Div.; Buffeljagts River, Gill! Mossel Bay Div.; banks of the Gauritz River, Bowie! Knysna Div.; Ruigte Vallei, under 500 ft., Drège; Humansdorp Div.; Lange Kloof, mountain sides near the west bank of Wagenbooms River, Burchell, 4903! Uitenhage Div.; valley of Zwartkops River, 50–500 ft., Zeyher, 458! 3467! Albany Div.; Howisons Poort, near Grahamstown, 2000–3000 ft., Zeyher, 3468, Grahamstown, MacOwan! Fort Beaufort Div., Cooper, 482! Queenstown Div.; rocky summits near Queenstown, 4500 ft., Galpin, 2006!EASTERN REGION Natal; without precise locality, Cooper, 2814! Gerrard, 53!KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; Orange River, Burke! Var. β, Griqualand West; Asbestos Mountains, at the Kloof Village, Burchell, 2045/ 1! at Klip Fontein, Burchell, 2623!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Forster! Forbes! Waldegrave!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; Orange River near Verleptpram, under 500 ft., Drège. Var. β, Great Namaqualand; Ausis, Schenck, 75! Gubub, Schinz, 871!
Notes
The locality “in America Boreali” given in Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 188, is corrected to “in Æthiopia” in ed. 2, 269.

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