(Last Modified On 5/16/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/16/2013)
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Species
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Solanum pseudocapsicum L.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Sp. P1. 184. 1753.
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Note
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LECTOTYPE: Madeira, Herb. Linn. 248-4 (LINN).
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Description
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Erect, glabrate shrub to 2 m tall; stem terete or slightly angled, puberulent with small dendritic hairs or glabrous. Leaves entire or faintly sinuate, narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, apically acuminate or obtuse, basally narrowed, dark green above, lighter beneath, glabrous or with a few forward-curved hairs on the midrib and margins, the midrib prominent beneath; pedicels 3-10 mm long, slender but thickening in fruit. Flowers with the calyx 4-6 mm long, the lobes deltoid to narrowly oblong with obtuse or rounded, fine ciliate tips, the midvein evident; corolla 1-1.5 mm across, sometimes reflexed, white, deeply-lobed; stamens spreading or connivent in a tube, the filaments glabrous, stout, 1 mm long, the anthers 2.5-3 mm long, stout; style filiform, straight. Fruit an orange-red berry, 12-18 mm across, shiny and conspicuous, the stylar scar evident; seeds compressed-lenticular, shiny.
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Habit
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shrub
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Note
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Known in Panama only as a plant cultivated for ornament, it has been recently introduced to the Volca'n district.
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Common
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Jerusalem cherry
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Specimen
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GJIRIQui: Cultivated, Nueva Suisa, Volcan District, 6,000 ft, D'Arcy 5418 (MO).
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