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Solanum violaceum

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Name

Identification
Solanum brownii Dunal [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Anthony Russell (Tony) Bean, Solanum violaceum R.Br. [family SOLANACEAE ]
Related name
  • Solanum sodomeum
  • Solanum xanthocarpum
  • Solanum erosum
  • Solanum sanitwongsei
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  • Solanum undatum
  • Solanum violaceum
  • Solanum indicum
  • Solanum brownii
  • Solanum multiflorum
  • Solanum virginianum
  • Lycianthes levis
  • Solanum indet.

Flora

Entry for SOLANUM indicum 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 indicum Linn. [family SOLANACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 187;—Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 55; Wight Ic. t. 346; Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 309; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 234.
SOLANUM violaceum Jacq. [family SOLANACEAE], Fragm. 82, t. 132, fig. 1.
Information
shrubby; stem erect, branched, terete, densely clothed when young with floccose stellate tomentum; spines straight; leaves solitary or geminate, ovate or ovate-oblong, more or less sinuately lobed, acute, 4 in. long, 2 in. wide; stellate hairs on the upper surface with one ray much longer than the rest, those on the lower with equal rays; cymes racemose, few-flowered; pedicels thickened upwards; calyx shortly campanulate, densely stellately hairy outside; lobes shortly triangular; corolla violet-purple, 6–8 lin. in diam., densely stellate-hairy outside when young, less so inside; lobes lanceolate, acute; filaments short; anthers 2 lin. long, lanceolate, with 2 minute terminal pores; style longer than the anthers; berries globose, 5 lin. in diam., usually several matured on one cyme, glabrous; seeds compressed, minutely pitted. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa, Malaya, and India.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Inanda, Wood, 564!

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