Physalis patula Mill.

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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HERBARIUM
Physalis patula Miller (1768)
=P. foetens Poiret (1817)
Det. Mahinda Martinez, 1993
Edo. Veracruz, Mun. Perote, outskirts of the town of Perote, on the NE side.
19°34'N, 97°14'W	alt. 2400 m.
Ruderals on flat plateau, now very dry and most annual plants frosted and dried up. Annual herbs, viscid, fetid, with smell of Polanisia dodecandra; much-branched, to 5 dm tall, 1 m. wide, mostly only fruiting now. Corolla pale yellow with 5 dark green spots; filaments blue; anthers blue-green. Fruiting calyx green with purple veins, 5-angled, hanging, the older calyces fading to pale green and ±skeletonized, apparently chewed open by small animals and fruits opened partially leaving some light brown seeds in shell of nearly dry fruit; fruit at first dark purple.
Coll.: M. Nee 32079	11 Dec. 1985
N. Y. Botanical Garden (NY);INIREB, Xalapa (XAL)
The New York Botanical Garden Plants of MEXICO Physalis patula Mill. det. M. Nee, 1986
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