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Magnoliopsida
Solanum wrightii Benth.
EOL Text
"Notes: Western Ghats, Evergreen Forests, Cultivated, Native of Tropical America"
Tamil Nadu: Nilgiri
Trees to 12 m tall, sometimes armed with straight prickles, pubescent with stalked stellate hairs. Petiole 5-10 cm; leaf blade broadly ovate, 30 × 15-20 cm, scabrid with dispersed simple or stellate hairs adaxially, with sparse to dense, stalked stellate hairs and prickles abaxially, often with straight yellow or green prickles, base oblique, margin entire or sinuate-lobed, apex obtuse or acute. Inflorescences axillary or extra-axillary many-flowered racemes; peduncle mostly unbranched. Flowers showy, andromonoecious. Pedicel 0.6-1.5 cm, often leaving a conspicuous scar, with dense, bristlelike, long-stalked hairs. Calyx 1-1.5 cm, deeply lobed; lobes lanceolate, hispid with mostly simple hairs. Corolla opening deep purple, fading through blue to white over several days, 6-9 cm in diam., lobed ca. 1/3 way down, stellate hairy abaxially. Filaments 2-3 mm, glabrous; anthers oblong, apex narrowed, beaklike, 1.2-1.5 cm. Style dimorphic. Berry red, sometimes remaining green, globose, 3-4 cm in diam. Seeds lenticular, 2-3 mm in diam.
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Habit: Shrub/small tree
Isotype for Solanum wrightii Benth.
Catalog Number: US 79466
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): C. Wright
Year Collected: 1853
Locality: Hong Kong., Hong Kong, China, Asia-Temperate
- Isotype: Bentham, G. 1861. Fl. Hongk. 243.
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Isotype for Solanum setosicalyx Rusby
Catalog Number: US 1185633
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): H. H. Rusby
Year Collected: 1921
Locality: Huachi, head of Beni River., Bolivia, South America
- Isotype: Rusby, H. H. 1927. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 7: 344.
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Hong Kong [Native of Bolivia and Brazil]
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
As no material from China was seen, the description was based on American plants. The species was originally described from a plant cultivated in Hong Kong.
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