Physalis pubescens

Physalis pubescens

Physalis pubescens is a species of the genus Physalis (Physalis ) in the nightshade family (Solanaceae ).

Description

Physalis pubescens is an annual or biennial, sometimes highly branched, herbaceous plant that reaches the stature heights between 10 and 150 cm. The pubescence of the stems is fine and variable from glandular or nichtdrüsigen, multicellular trichomes with up to 3 mm in length.

The leaves are usually hairy tomentose, and 3 to 17 cm long. The petioles are 1.5 to 7.0 cm long, the leaf blades are usually 2-10 cm long and 1-7 cm wide. Their shape is ovate to triangular, acute to tapering forward and cut blunt at the base up. Are the halves of the leaf base oblique, then they are only a maximum of 3 cm diagonally from each other. The leaf margin is irregularly dentate to almost entire.

The flowers are on 2-7 mm long pedicles. The calyx is hairy tomentose at flowering time and staffed by 1.5 to 3.0 mm long, calyx lobes. The crown is colored in yellow, and measures 0.9 to 1.5 cm in diameter. The petals are marked with five dark purple paint and fine hairs at the insertion of the stamens. Both stamens and anthers are usually colored purple or blue, only a few copies of them are yellow. The dust bag to a length of up to 2 mm.

On the fruit, the stem is extended to a length of 5 to 10 mm. The greatly magnifying cup is strong fünfwinkelig and 1.2 to 3.0 cm long and 1.8 to 2.5 cm wide, always longer than wide and is completely hairy with multicellular trichomes. The calyx surrounds a berry with a diameter of about 1 cm, which is colored green - purple to yellow when ripe. It comprises a plurality of seeds with kleingrubiger surface and a diameter of about 1.5 mm.

Dissemination and locations

The species is distributed from the Northeastern United States along the Atlantic coast via Mexico to Argentina, and the West Indies. It is a common weed, which is usually found at altitudes 0-900 m, but also growing in Colombia at altitudes of up to 2700 m. The species prefers sandy soils near rivers.

Swell

• Mahinda Martinez: Revision of Physalis Section Epeteiorhiza (Solanaceae ). In: Anal del Instituto de Biología Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, serial Botánica, Volume 69, Number 2, 1998, pp. 71-117. .

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