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Solanum virginianum

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Identification
Solanum diffusum Roxb. [family SOLANACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Solanum virginianum L. [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Nee M., 2006
Related name
  • Solanum sodomeum
  • Solanum heterodoxum
  • Solanum xanthocarpum
  • Solanum diffusum
  • Solanum xanthacanthum
  • Solanum virginianum
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  • Solanum jacquini
  • Solanum indet.
  • Solanum violaceum
  • Solanum mairei
  • Solanum surattense

Flora

Entry for PHYSALIS pubescens 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
PHYSALIS pubescens Linn. [family SOLANACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 183. —Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 446; Sendtn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. x. 132; A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ii. i. 234; Dewèvre in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxiii. 103.
PHYSALIS barbadensis Jacq. [family SOLANACEAE], Misc. ii. 359, and Ic. t. 39.
Solanum vesicarium Moris. [family SOLANACEAE], (virginianum, etc.,) Hist. iii. 527, § 13, t. 3, tig. 24.
Solanum virginianum Moris. [family SOLANACEAE], Hist. iii. 527, § 13, t. 3, tig. 24.
Information
An annual pubescent much-branched herb. Stem erect or procumbent, 1–2 ft. high. Leaves ovate or cordate, unequal at the base, from nearly entire to coarsely toothed, densely villous, sometimes glabrescent, about 2 in. long. Flowers pendulous; pedicels 3–5 lin. long. Calyx in flower campanulate, in fruit ovoid-acuminate, retuse at the base; lobes long-acuminate from a triangular base. Corolla dull yellow spotted with purplish-brown at the base, not exceeding 1/2 in. in diam. Anthers violet.
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea Lemaire.Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Blantyre, Descamps.

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