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Solanum radicans L.f.
Family Solanaceae
Common name: Cusmayllo

Solanum radicans L.f. APNI*

Synonyms: Solanum palitans C.V.Morton APNI*

Description: Sprawling annual or perennial herb with branches sometimes to 2 m long, frequently rooting at nodes, ± glabrous to sparsely hairy with glandular and simple, non-glandular hairs; prickles absent.

Leaves pinnatisect, ovate in outline, 3–5 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, deeply 3-lobed; lobes elliptic to ± obovate; both surfaces green and glabrescent except for hairs along lower veins; petiole 1–1.5 cm long.

Inflorescences 4–10-flowered; peduncle c. up to 15 mm long; rachis to 10 mm long; pedicels to 7 mm long. Calyx 2–3 mm long; lobes 1 mm long. Corolla stellate, to 10 mm diam., white.

Berry 4–5 mm diam., dull yellow-green.


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Flowering: spring–autumn.

Distribution and occurrence: Weed of farming and agricultural land; chiefly coastal districts from Grafton to Moss Vale. Native of Argentina.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *NT, *CT, *ST, *CWS, *NWS
AVH map***

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


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