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(Last Modified On 5/15/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/15/2013)
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Species
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Physalis cordata Mill.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Gard. Dict., ed. 8. 1768.
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Note
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TYPE: Vera Cruz, Houston s.n. (BM).
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Description
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Erect or sprawling short-lived herb to 80 cm tall; stems glabrate with some minute, antrorsely curved hairs often present. Leaves to 8 cm long, broadly ovate or elliptic, apically acuminate, basally rounded or truncate, the margins shallowly toothed, glabrate with some puberulence along the veins; petioles slender, 3-9 cm long, mostly shorter than the leaves; minor leaves present. Pedicels slender, minutely puberulent, about as long as the flowering calyx. Flowers with the calyx 3-6 mm long, 2-3 mm in diameter at the base of the lobes, the mouth of the tube sometimes contracted, glabrous except on the angles, the lobes narrowly deltoid, slightly longer than the tube, soon after flowering becoming 2-3 times as long as the tube; corolla with a contrasting pubescent eye, 5-10 mm long; filaments pubescent, the anthers bluish, 1.8-3 mm long. Fruits on slender pedicels not exceeding the calyx; fruiting calyx 5-angled, 25-30 (-45) mm long, glabrous, the lobes not exceeding 10 mm long; berry globose, 7-15 mm across.
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Habit
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herb
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Note
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This species is easily mistaken for P. angulata from which it differs in the pro- portions of the calyx teeth and lobes, best seen when the young fruiting calyx is less than 11 mm long. It differs also in the 5-angled calyx, but this character is not always evident in dried material. Physalis cordata usually is found in moist, partially shaded sites in regions occasionally subjected to drought.
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Distribution
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ranges from Panama to central Mexico and is found in both the Greater and Lesser Antilles.
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Note
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It may occur in South America. While most collections are from the lowlands, P. cordata has sometimes been collected from middle and upper elevations.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel 1167 (GH). CHIRIQuI: South side of Cerro Pando, 6,000 ft, along path in abandoned cultivation, D'Arcy 5392 (MO). Weedy pasture, La Popa above Boquete, 5,200 ft, D'Arcy & D'Arcy 6413 (C, COI, MO, PMA, UCWI). COCLE: Las Delicias, Carleton 223 (NY, US). COLON: Wooded hillside between France Field, C.Z. and Catival, Standley 30236 (US). DARIEN: Edge of pasture and stream near junction Rio Perre Cenico and Rio Pirre, D'Arcy 5521 (COI, MO, MPU). 2-3 mi. SE of El Real, Duke 4860 (F, MO). Periaque camp at river, Tyson et al. 4738 (FSU, GH, MO, SCZ). 1 mi. N of Rio Sabana, Tyson et al. 4803 (MO; the specimen at SCZ with this number is P. pubescens var. hygrophila (Mart.) Dun.). LOS SANTOS: Rio Tonosli, vicinity of Tonosi, gravel river bed and forest edge, Lewis et al. 1579 (COI, F, MO, MPU). PANAMA: Edge of forest, top of ridge N of El Llano, D'Arcy & D'Arcy 6039 (C, MO, P, PMA, UCWI). Piria, Duke 14424 (OS, US). Weed patch beside road near Cerro Azul, 2,000 ft, D'Arcy & D'Arcy 6213 (ADW, BIRM, C, CAL, COI, COL, CORD, DAO, DUKE, F, FSU, G, GH, K, L, LE, M, MO, MPU, NY, P, PMA, POM, PRE, R, TH, UCWI, US, VEN, WIS). Common, Tocumen, Dwyer 4252 (FSU). In total shade, Chepo near river, Tyson 1415 (SCZ). Rio Tatare, Woodson & Schery 1015 (MO, US).
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