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Solanum volkensii

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Identification
Solanum volkensii Dammer [family SOLANACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Solanum campylacanthum Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Solanum campylacanthum
  • Solanum delagoense
  • Solanum volkensii

Flora

Entry for SOLANUM Volkensii Dammer [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 Volkensii Dammer [family SOLANACEAE], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 354.
Information
A shrub about 3 ft. high. Branches terete, unarmed, covered with ashy stellate tomentum. Leaves 3 in. long, 1 1/2 in. wide, ovate-lanceolate, subcordate, acute, slightly repand, green with minute stellate hairs above, ashy and stellately tomentose beneath; petiole 7 lin. long, stellately-tomentose and with a few short spines. Inflorescence extra-axillary, paniculate; flowers polygamo-diœcious, the lowest hermaphrodite. Calyx cupular; lobes subulate, 2 lin. long, densely ashy stellate-tomentose. Corolla violet, rotate, plicate, about 1 in. in diam.; lobes 5 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate; midpetaline areas white stellate-tomentose outside. Filaments very short; anthers 1/4 in. long, scarcely attenuate, pores terminal. Ovary globose; style filiform, 1/3 in. long, stellately tomentose below.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usaramo, Stuhlmann, 6774, 7365; Kilimanjaro, Volkens, 1565; Marangu, Volkens, 2144.

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