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(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 schlechtendalianum Walp.
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Repert. Bot. Syst. 3: 61. 1844.
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Note
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TYPE: Based on S. geminifolium Schlecht.
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Synonym
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Solanum geminifolium Schlecht., Linnaea 5: 112. 1830, err. typogr. S. geminiflorum corrected Linnaea 8: 255. 1833, nom Thonn. in Schum. & Thonn., Beskr. Guin. P1. 121. 1827. TYPE: Schiede 138 (MO38). Solanum fragile Wright ex Griseb., Cat. P1. Cub. 189. 1866. TYPE: Cuba, Wright 3024 (GH, MO, P). Solanum gentlei Lundell, Publ. Field Columbian Mus., Bot. ser. 8: 42. 1930. TYPE: British Hon- duras, Gentle 3944 (A, NY).
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Description
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Shrub or tree to 8 m tall; twigs finely tomentose with whitish, appressed, stalked, porrect stellae, soon glabrescent leaving a powdery surface. Leaves to 15 cm long, ovate, apically acuminate, basally rounded, above green, sometimes drying dark, with fine, sessile, porrect, pauciradiate hairs, beneath hoary with appressed, stalked stellae; petiole short, to 8 mm long; minor leaves often present, often associated with dichotomies of the stem rather than solitary major leaves. Inflorescence almost terminal or becoming opposite the leaves or occasionally lateral, an open panicle, the peduncle unbranched or ternately branched, densely pubescent; pedicels 3-6 mm long becoming 10-15 mm long but not stout in fruit. Flowers small; calyx 3 mm long, lobed '/3-1/2 the way down, the lobes short- deltoid, the midvein evident, 1.5 mm long in flower, becoming 3 mm long in fruit, densely pubescent outside, glabrous within; corolla white, 7-9 mm across, deeply lobed, the lobes appressed tomentose outside, glabrous within; filaments glabrous, connate basally, the anthers 2.5-3 mm long, stout, opening introrsely by large terminal pores; ovary persistently tomentose, the style pubescent on the basal half. Fruit a globose berry, maturing purple (Lewis), 7-9 mm across; seed flattened-discoid, 2 mm across.
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Habit
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Shrub or tree
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This species occurs in forest openings at lower and middle elevations. It ranges from Mexico and the Antilles south to the Andes. Solanum schlechtendalianum is placed in sect. Extensum for convenience; it may not be closely related to other members of the section.
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Distribution
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ranges from Mexico and the Antilles south to the Andes.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Quebrada Huron, rapid streams through evergreen seasonal forest, Kirkbride & Duke 431 (MO, NY). 4-6 mi. N of Almirante, lower montane rain-forest, McDaniel 5100 (FSU, MO). CANAL ZONE: Madden Forest Preserve along Las Cruces Trail and highway, deep rain forest, Lewis et al. 5262, 5307 (both MO). COLON: Santa Rita East Ridge, Dwyer 8415 (MO). Between France Field and Catival, Standley 30374 (US). DARIEN: Cana and vicinity, Williams 729 (NY). HERRERA: 12.5 mi. S of Ocu', 1,200 ft, secondary woods on hillside, Lewis et al. 1649 (GH, MO, US). LOS SANTOS: Loma Prieta, 800-900 m, Duke 11832 (MO, NY, OS), 11868 (MO" OS). Loma Prieta, Cerro Grande, 2,400-2,800 ft, cloud forest and disturbed margins, Lewis et al. 2200 (DUKE, MO). PANAMA: Roadside, Cerro Jefe, D'Arcy et al. 3962 (MO). Cerro Jefe near Rio Indio, 2,100- 2,200 ft, Duke 15239 (WIS). 1 mi. N of Cerro Azul, 2,300 ft, Tyson & Blum 4075 (FSU, MO).
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