I think Prabhu ji is right, it should be S. violaceum with broad-based prickles and purple-violet flowers However, as per recent interpretation of S. lasiocarpum (these species have been much confused in the past), S. lasiocarpum has only white (and not purple) flowers and characteristic hairy ovary and berry.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/solanaceaesource/taxonomy/description-detail.jsp?spnumber=3386 http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200020589 -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you very very very much Prabhu ji for the correction. > I will do the changes in my flickr notes shortly. > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Prabhu kumar KM > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dear Dineshji Good shot............ >> But it is not *S. lasiocarpum* >> I think it is *Solanum violaceum* Ortega ssp. *violaceum* >> Please check. >> *S. lasiocarpum: *Robust shrubs, to 1.5 m high; stems densely spineus >> prickled and stellate hairy. Leaves to 35 x 35 cm, ovate-orbicular, entire >> or shallowly lacerate; stellate hairs unequally armed; petioles 5-10 cm >> long. Flowers in groups of 2-3, axillary, epedunculate; pedicels short; >> calyx densely stellate hairy; corolla 3-4 cm across, blue, hairy outside; >> ovary densely hairy. Berry 3-5 cm across, globose, densely covered with >> spineus bristles. >> >> *Solanum violaceum* Ortega ssp. *violaceum: *Armed undershrubs, up to >> 1.5 m tall; branches minutely stellate-hairy on young parts, glabrate when >> mature. Leaves 5-12 x 4-7 cm, ovate or ovate-oblong, sinuately to deeply >> lobed, base rounded or unequal, apex subacute, sparsely stellate-hairy >> above, stellate-woolly beneath, prickly on the nerves; petiole to 2.5 cm >> long. Flowers bluish-violet in extra-axillary racemes; peduncle c. 4 cm >> long; pedicel to 8 mm long. Calyx cupular; lobes 5, c. 5 mm long, >> triangular, prickly. Corolla c. 2 cm across, campanulate. Stamens 5; >> anthers c. 5 mm long. Ovary c. 2 x 2 mm, globose; stigma acute. Berry >> 0.8-1.3 cm across, globose; orange yellow when ripe. >> >> >> >> -- >> *Prabhu Kumar K M* >> Scientist >> Plant Systematics & Genetic Resources Division >> Centre for Medicinal Plants Research (CMPR) >> & 'CMPR' Herbarium >> Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala >> Kottakkal, Malappuram >> *E-mail: [email protected]* >> >> > -- > > > > --
