Solanum physalifolium APNI* Description: Sprawling annual herb to 0.5 m high, hairy with glandular hairs; prickles absent.
Leaves ovate, mostly 4–5 cm long, 1–3 cm wide, margins entire or shallowly lobed with 9 or 10 lobes; ± concolorous, both surfaces green, pubescent; petiole 5–15 cm long.
Inflorescences 2–7-flowered; peduncle 10 mm long, slightly longer in fruit; pedicels 5–7 mm long. Calyx 1.5–2.5 mm long; lobes 1–1.5 mm long. Corolla stellate, 12–14 mm diam., white.
Berry 5–8 mm diam., green to purplish green.
Flowering: chiefly summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Weed of cultivation, from Sydney to Cowra and south to Marulan. Native of N Amer. & Eur.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *CT, *CWS
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *Tas. *S.A.
Text by B. J. Conn
Taxon concept:
| N.S.W. occurrences are: var. nitidibaccatum |
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