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Published In: Species Plantarum, Editio Secunda 2: 1670–1671. 1763. (Sp. Pl. (ed. 2)) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 
 

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Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Contributor Text: YASIN J. NASIR
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: May-October.
Type: Lectotype: Hort. Uppsala ex Peru. Hb. Linn. 247/7 (LINN).
Distribution: Distribution: Tropical America, cultivated or naturalised elsewhere.
Comment/Acknowledgements: The ‘cape gooseberry’ is both cultivated and found as an escape up to c. 1830 m. The yellow berries are edible and can be used for making jams etc.
Illustration: Physalis peruviana L. (Illustration)
Map Location: Chitral: B-6 near Drosh, J. R. Drummond 22023 (K); C-7 Rawalpindi Dist.: Gordon College, cultivated, M. A. Siddiqi & Y. Nasir 6329 (RAW), Rawal lake, Y. Nasir & Khan 10473 (RAW); Islamabad, 25.10.1983, Khan s.n. (RAW); CDA Nursery, 12.2.1979, Wandat Khan s.n. (RAW); Attock Dist.: Wah gardens, M. A. Siddiqi 3192 (RAW).

 

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Plant 30-60 cm tall, pubescent-villous, often densely so. Leaves 4.5-14 x 3.5-10.5 cm, ovate to ovate-cordate, sinuate to repand or toothed, pubescent-vinous. Calyx 7-9 mm long, ± campanulate, 1/2-cleft, 35-40 mm long and inflated in fruit; lobes triangular-acuminate. Corolla yellow, purple blotched, sparse pubescent without; lobes shortly ciliate. Anthers 2.3-3 mm long, narrow oblong; filaments 3-4 mm long, glabrous. Berry 13 mm broad. globose, orange. Seeds 2.4 mm long, subreniform, minutely reticulate, brown.
 
 
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