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Solanum papaverifolium Symon
Family Solanaceae
Solanum papaverifolium Symon APNI*

Description: Erect or sprawling perennial herb with annual branches to 0.3 m high; glabrous except for minute glandular hairs on young growth; prickles abundant on branches, leaves, pedicels and calyx.

Leaves ovate, 4–7 cm long, 3–5 cm wide, deeply lobed, lobes 1–2 cm long, margins toothed or lobed; both surfaces green and glabrous; petiole 1–1.5 cm long.

Inflorescences 1–6-flowered; peduncle 10–60 mm long; rachis 10–20 mm long; pedicels 10–20 mm long. Calyx 5–8 mm long; lobes 3–5 mm long. Corolla stellate, c. 20 mm diam., purple.

Berry 10–12 mm diam., greenish yellow with faint green stripes.


Type
Specimen

Flowering: late spring to autumn.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in heavy clay soils, frequently as a weed of cereal crops, north from Singleton area.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NWS, CWS, NWP
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by B. J. Conn
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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