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SOLANUM macrocarpon Linn. [family SOLANACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 macrocarpon Linn. [family SOLANACEAE], Mant. Alt. 205. —Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 353. SOLANUM Mors-elephantum Dammann [family SOLANACEAE], Cat. No. 70, 100, fig. 81; Wien. Ill. Gartenz. 1894, 30, fig. 7.
Information
A stout subshrub. Stem terete, much branched, smooth, when young sparingly furnished with simple hairs. Leaves ovate, sinuate-repand, generally tapering to the base, 8 in. long, 4 in. wide, glabrous; petiole short, channelled above. Cymes short, racemose, almost leaf-opposed. Calyx campanulate; lobes 5, foliaceous, enlarging in fruit. Corolla broadly campanulate, 1 1/2 in. in diam., blue-purple; lobes 5, broadly triangular. Stamens 5; anthers lanceolate, pores terminal, small. Ovary globose; style rather longer than the stamens. Berry globose, yellow, the size of an apple.
Distribution
Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Last!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Stuhlmann.Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Buchanan, 1054!Uganda Mozamb. Dist. 2nd march from Lubwas, Whyte!
SOLANUM macrocarpon Linn. [family SOLANACEAE]
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