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Identification
Solanum incanum L. [family SOLANACEAE ]
Related name
  • Solanum incanum

Flora

Entry for SOLANUM incanum 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 incanum Linn. [family SOLANACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 188
SOLANUM sanctum Linn. [family SOLANACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 269.
SOLANUM coagulans Forsk. [family SOLANACEAE], Fl. Ægypt.-Arab. 47; Del. Fl. Égypte, 63, t. 23, fig. 1.
SOLANUM esculentum Drège [family SOLANACEAE], Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 49, 138, 139, 151, not of Dunal.
SOLANUM subexarmatum Dunal [family SOLANACEAE], in DC. Prod. xiii. i.367.
SOLANUM Melongena Hook. f. [family SOLANACEAE], Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 235 partly, not of Linn.
Information
a shrub 3–5 ft. high, with dense stellate tomentum on the branches, petioles, underside of leaves, and outside of calyx and corolla; branches terete; spines few or many, 2 lin. long, curved, broad at the base; leaves ovate or ovate-elliptic, sinuate, 5 in. by 2–3 in., obtuse, green and minutely stellately hairy on the upper surface, unequal at the base, sometimes spiny on the midrib and nerves; petiole 1 1/4 in. long; flowers solitary or few together (the lower only fertile), cernuous; peduncle short; calyx spiny outside, cup-shaped; lobes lanceolate, acuminate; corolla purple or white, 9–15 lin. in diam.; lobes ovate, acute; filaments very short; anthers 2 1/2 lin. long, oblong, with 2 small apical pores; style longer than the stamens; fruit subglobose, 1 1/2 in. in diam., yellow. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa, Syria, Afghanistan, and Beluchistan.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset East Div.; near Somerset East, 2800 ft., MacOwan, 1642!COAST REGION Somerset Div.; near Little Fish River and Great Fish River, 2000–3000 ft., Drège; Bedford Div.; by the Baviaans River, Burke! Fort Beaufort Div.; Kat River Poort, 2000 ft., Drège, and without precise locality, Cooper, 478! Queenstown Div.; Klass Smits River, 4000–4500 ft., Drège! plains near Queenstown, 3500 ft., Galpin, 1983!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 409! Pondoland; on hills near St. Johns River, under 1000 ft., Drège, in scrub, Isnuka, Port St. John, 50 ft., Galpin, 2869! Natal; Umhlanga, Wood, 1226!KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; Bester's Vlei, near Witzies Hoek, 5300 ft., Bolus, 8219! on hills near the Orange River, Burke! Leeuwe Spruit and Vredefort, Barrett-Hamilton! Bechuanaland; Barolong Territory, Holub! Transvaal; near Lydenberg, Wilms, 1018! Jeppestown Ridges near Johannesburg, 6000 ft., Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 6055!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher, 1254!

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