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Solanum mauritianum Scop. [family SOLANACEAE]

Date Updated: 5 February 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 2,
Names
Solanum mauritianum Scop. [family SOLANACEAE], Delic. Fl. et Faun. Insubr. 3: 16 (1788); Bitter in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 54: 491 (1917). Solanum auriculatum Ait. [family SOLANACEAE], (1789)-F.W.T.A., ed1, 2: 206 Solanum verbascifolium [family SOLANACEAE], of F.T.A4, 2: 221, partly (Angolan specimens), not of Linn.
Information
A densely stellate-tomentose tree or shrub up to 20 ft. high, with blue-purple flowers.
Range
Probably a native of S. America (Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay); long-introduced and naturalized in many tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World. Not a native of Mascarene Islands
Distribution
S. L.: Njala, cultivated (July) Deighton 3961![Br.] Cam.: Cam. Mt., Buea, 3,500-4,000 ft.

Date Updated: 5 February 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 2,
Names
Solanum mauritianum Scop. [family SOLANACEAE], Delic. Fl. et Faun. Insubr. 3: 16 (1788); Bitter in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 54: 491 (1917). Solanum auriculatum Ait. [family SOLANACEAE], (1789)-F.W.T.A., ed1, 2: 206 Solanum verbascifolium [family SOLANACEAE], of F.T.A4, 2: 221, partly (Angolan specimens), not of Linn.
Information
A densely stellate-tomentose tree or shrub up to 20 ft. high, with blue-purple flowers.
Range
Probably a native of S. America (Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay); long-introduced and naturalized in many tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World. Not a native of Mascarene Islands
Distribution
S. L.: Njala, cultivated (July) Deighton 3961![Br.] Cam.: Cam. Mt., Buea, 3,500-4,000 ft.

Date Updated: 5 February 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 2,
Names
Solanum mauritianum Scop. [family SOLANACEAE], Delic. Fl. et Faun. Insubr. 3: 16 (1788); Bitter in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 54: 491 (1917). Solanum auriculatum Ait. [family SOLANACEAE], (1789)-F.W.T.A., ed1, 2: 206 Solanum verbascifolium [family SOLANACEAE], of F.T.A4, 2: 221, partly (Angolan specimens), not of Linn.
Information
A densely stellate-tomentose tree or shrub up to 20 ft. high, with blue-purple flowers.
Range
Probably a native of S. America (Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay); long-introduced and naturalized in many tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World. Not a native of Mascarene Islands
Distribution
S. L.: Njala, cultivated (July) Deighton 3961![Br.] Cam.: Cam. Mt., Buea, 3,500-4,000 ft.
Solanum mauritianum Scop. [family SOLANACEAE]
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