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Published In: Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica 47. 1775. (Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Contributor Text: YASIN J. NASIR
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: March-April.
Type: Type: Described from Arabia.
Distribution: Distribution: N. Africa, Arabia, Pakistan & India.
Comment/Acknowledgements: A xerophytic scrambler with slender branches. found in rocky places up to 1000 m. Not so common in the Punjab. The juices of the crushed leaves and fruit is medicinal.
Illustration: Solanum cordatum Forssk. (Illustration)
Map Location: C-6 Kohat Dist: Madira-Hangu, fls. purple, M.A. Siddiqi & Z. Ali 3772 (RAW); Kurram: Thal-Alizai, Aitchison 521 (K); C-7 Attock Dist.: Dhok Patan, R.R. Stewart & E. Nasir 27868 (RAW); Kalachita hills, 2000', R.R. Stewart 13612 (RAW); id., M.A. Siddiqi 101 (ISL); Jhalar, E. Nasir 16303 (RAW); C, D-6 D. I. Khan Dist.: Sheikhbadin, July 1907, Deane s.n. (K); Jhelum Dist.: Khewra, Coll. Ignot. s.n. (RAW); Gujrat Dist.: Pabbi hills, Parker 3326 (K); G-5 Hyderabad Dist.: Gharo, S. I. Ali et al 173 (RAW); G-4 Karachi Dist.: Karachi Colony, in poor soil, A. Jalis 107 (RAW); Drigh rd., A. Rahman 25704 (RAW); Baluchistan: D-5 100 km E. of Ft. Sandeman, Mughalkot-Daraban rd., Rech. f. 29991 (W); Gumbaz, Rech. f. 29646 (W); Scinde & Belochistan, Stocks 252 (K).

 

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A scrambling undershrub, 60 cm or more tall, stellately pubescent. Prickles up to 5 mm long, conical, curved. Leaves 10-25 x 7-20 mm, orbicular-oblong to subcordate. Petiole as long as or shorter than lamina. Flowers 1-2(-3) axillary, lateral or terminal. Pedicel 10-30 cm long, slender, stellate-pubescent. Calyx cam¬panulate; lobes 2-3(-5) mm long, acute or obtuse. Corolla 5-7 mm long, stellate-pubescent on the outside, throat purple; lobes acute or obtuse. Filaments less than 1 mm long. Style and ovary glabrous. Berry 5-7 mm broad, yellow-red. Seeds c. 2.6 mm broad, subreniform, verrucate.
 
 
 
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