Why not Solanum anguivi?which is reported from KAS Dr Satish Phadke
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]* >>> >>> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > > > > -- > > > > --
