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Magnoliopsida
Physalis cordata Mill.
EOL Text
United States
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
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Herbs annual, to 1 m tall, sparsely pubescent. Petiole 3-6 cm; leaf blade ovate, sometimes broadly so, 3-6 × 2.5-7 cm, membranous, sparsely pubescent along veins, base oblique, margin subentire or sparsely dentate, apex acuminate. Pedicel 4-10 mm. Calyx 4-7 mm; lobes linear-lanceolate, 2.5-3.5 mm, pubescent. Corolla pale yellow, spotted in throat, 6-8 × 4-8 mm in diam., apex pubescent abaxially, subtruncate. Anthers bluish green, 1.8-3 mm. Fruiting pedicel 1-2.5 cm. Fruiting calyx green, strongly 5-angled, turbinate, invaginated at base, glabrescent. Berry 1-1.4 cm in diam. Seeds straw colored, elliptic-discoid, 1.5-2 × 1-1.2 mm. Fl. and fr. Feb-Sep.
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Holotype for Physalis porrecta Waterf.
Catalog Number: US 1643018
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): A. F. Skutch
Year Collected: 1936
Locality: El General vicinity., San José, Costa Rica, Central America
Elevation (m): 1160 to 1160
- Holotype: Waterfall, U. T. 1967. Rhodora. 69: 237.
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Isotype for Physalis clarionensis Waterf.
Catalog Number: US 313964
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): A. W. Anthony
Year Collected: 1897
Locality: Clarion Island, Revillagigedo Islands, Colima, Mexico, North America
- Isotype: Waterfall, U. T. 1967. Rhodora. 69: 326.
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Disturbed sites. Hainan [North and South America].
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United States
Rounded National Status Rank: N4 - Apparently Secure
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Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
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