Solanum granulosum-leprusumDunal [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Michael (Mike) Nee, Solanum verbascifoliumDunal [family SOLANACEAE ]
Related name
Solanum hebecarpum
Solanum hazenii
Solanum verbascifolium
Ficus corymbifera
Solanum donianum
Solanum thapsus
Solanum laurifolium
Solanum asperum
Solanum carterianum
Solanum carnosipes
Solanum granulosum-leprusum
Solanum auriculatum
Solanum mauritianum
Solanum erianthum
Solanum conglobatum
Flora
Entry for SOLANUM verbascifolium 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 verbascifoliumLinn. [family SOLANACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 184. —Jacq. Hort. Vind. i. t. 13; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 114; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 449; C. B. Cl. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 230.
Information
An unarmed shrub or almost a tree. Leaves ovate-oblong, acuminate, quite entire, up to 8 in. long, upper surface with adpressed stellate hairs, lower mealy with dense stellate tomentum. Inflorescence corymbose, subterminal, at length lateral, mealy (except inside the corolla) with stellate tomentum; peduncle usually forked. Calyx-tube campanulate, 2 lin. long; lobes not quite as long as the tube, broadly triangular. Corolla 1/2 in. in diam., white, rarely pale blue; tube short; lobes 5, oblong. Filaments very short; anthers oblong, obtuse, pores slightly oblique, wide. Berry globose, up to 1/2 in. in diam., yellow.
