Physalis pubescens L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Solanaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Annual, pubescent and viscid. Stems tall and erect, or widely spreading, acutely 3-4-angled; leaves 3-6 cm. long, heart-shaped, acute, or usually abruptly acuminate, sharply repand-dentate, pubescent with short hairs; peduncles short, at maturity sometimes 2 cm. long; calyx generally densely viscid-hirsute, its lobes lanceolate, acuminate; corolla 5-10 mm. in diameter, yellow, with a purplish eye; anthers purplish; fruiting calyx 2.5-3 cm. long, attenuate, reticulate, retuse at the base.
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Distribution
Waste grounds, Andros and New Providence : West Indies : continental tropical and temperate America. ?P. curassavica of Schoepf. Hairy Grouxd-Cherry.
Andros Island Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| West Indies|