Solanum nigrum 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, glabrous, or somewhat pubescent with simple hairs, 3-8 dm. high. Leaves ovate, petioled, more or less inequilateral, 2-8 cm. long, thin, acute, acuminate or aeutish at the apex; peduncles lateral, umbellately 3-10-flowered; pedicels 6-14 mm. long; flowers 8-10 mm. broad; calyx-lobes oblong, obtuse, much shorter than the corolla, persistent at the base of the berry; filaments somewhat pubescent; anthers obtuse; berries glabrous, globose, 8-10 mm. in diameter, black, on nodding peduncles.
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Discussion
Waste and cultivated grounds, throughout the archipelago from Great Bahama to Watling's. East Caicos, Grand Turk and Inagua : all temperate and tropical regions of both hemispheres. Consists of many races differing in length of pedicels and size of flowers, the leaves varying from entire to coarsely toothed. Recorded by Hitchcock as Solarium nigrum oleraceum; by Small as Solatium gracile Link. Black Nightshade. Ink-berry. Gooma-bcsh.
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Distribution
Great Bahama to Watling's. East Caicos, Grand Turk and Inagua.
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