Family: Solanaceae
Nicandra physalodes
Citation:
Gaertner, Fruct. 2:237 (1791).
Synonymy: Atropa physalodes L., Sp. Pl. 181 (1753).
Common name: Apple of Peru.
Description:
Herbs to 2 m high or more; leaf lamina narrowly to broadly ovate, to 21 rarely 31 cm long, margin usually dentate or sinuate-dentate; petiole to 9 cm long.
Pedicel to 24 mm long, recurved; sepals ovate, often slightly mucronate at the apex, sagittate at the base and often mucronate at basal tips, to 22 mm long; corolla to 23 rarely 30 mm long, limb slightly lobed; style 3-6 mm long.
Berry to 22 mm diam.; seeds compressed, subdiscoid to broadly reniform, to 2 mm long; testa reticulate-pitted.
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Image source: fig. 567B in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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S.Aust.: EP, NL, SL, SE. W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Native to Peru. Flowers: at most times of the year, principally summer-autumn.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
Not yet available
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