Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Solanaceae
Solanaceae
Description:
Species Description - A stellate-tomentulose shrub, 1-4 m. high, the rather stout branches sparingly armed with short flattened, nearly straight prickles, or unarmed. Leaves broadly ovate in outline, 5-20 cm. long, stout-petioled, angular-lobed or sinuate-margined, acute or obtuse at the apex, truncate or subcordate at the base, sometimes with a few prickles on the petiole and on the midvein beneath, the upper surface scabrous; cymes lateral, short-peduncled, several flowered; flowering pedicels slender, glandular, 5-8 mm. long, thickening in fruit; calyx glandular, about 4 mm. long, 5-cleft, its lobes ovate, acute; corolla white, 5-cleft, 10-15 mm. broad; berry globose, 10-14 mm. in diameter, yellow.
Species Description - A stellate-tomentulose shrub, 1-4 m. high, the rather stout branches sparingly armed with short flattened, nearly straight prickles, or unarmed. Leaves broadly ovate in outline, 5-20 cm. long, stout-petioled, angular-lobed or sinuate-margined, acute or obtuse at the apex, truncate or subcordate at the base, sometimes with a few prickles on the petiole and on the midvein beneath, the upper surface scabrous; cymes lateral, short-peduncled, several flowered; flowering pedicels slender, glandular, 5-8 mm. long, thickening in fruit; calyx glandular, about 4 mm. long, 5-cleft, its lobes ovate, acute; corolla white, 5-cleft, 10-15 mm. broad; berry globose, 10-14 mm. in diameter, yellow.
Distribution:
New Providence Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| West Indies|
New Providence Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| West Indies|