Physalis hederifolia

Physalis hederifolia

Physalis hederifolia is a plant of the genus Physalis (Physalis ) in the nightshade family (Solanaceae ).

Description

Hederifolia Physalis is a perennial, herbaceous plant that can reach a height of 10 to 50 cm. She is hairy with different long and articulated and short trichomes or solely with short trichomes, the hair can be sticky, drüsenköpfig or neither. Occasionally, places to star-shaped trichomes. The leaf blades of the leaves are almost kidney-shaped to ovate, rarely ovate - lanceolate. The leaf margin is serrated coarse and irregular salient to weakly lobed or wavy to entire. The larger sheets 20 to 50 ( often up to 80 ) mm long by 15 to 40 ( often up to 60) mm wide. The leaf stems have a length of 10 to 45 mm.

The flowers are on stalks with a length of 2 to 7 ( rarely to 15) mm. In the heyday of the calyx is 5-9 mm long and at the base of the calyx lobes 4-6 mm wide. The calyx lobes are 2-4 mm long and triangular shaped to lanceolate. The crown is striking to indistinctly spotted, 7 to 10 mm long and 10 to 17 mm wide. The coronary band is bent back when the flower is fully open. The anthers are usually yellow, occasionally tinged with violet and also 2 to 4 mm long. They are slightly thickened filaments, which reach a length of 1 to 5 mm.

The fruit is a berry 9-15 mm wide. It is surrounded by an enlarging calyx, which is 12 to 25 mm long and 9-17 mm wide at the ripe fruit and has a zehnwinkligen or zehnrippigen cross section. The coat of the fruit calyx may vary, the larger stems on the fruit at 5 to 10 mm.

Dissemination

The species is widespread in Mexico.

Swell

• U.T. Waterfall: Physalis in Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. In: Rhodora, Volume 69, Number 778, New England Botanical Club, Oxford 1967, pp. 203-239. .