Solanum nemophilum

Solanum nemophilum, is a flowering plant in the family Solanaceae and grows in New South Wales and Queensland. It has purple flowers and is densely covered with star-shaped hairs.

Solanum nemophilum
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Solanum
Species:
S. nemophilum
Binomial name
Solanum nemophilum

Description

Solanum nemophilum is a shrub to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) high, thickly covered in star-shaped hairs, rarely prickly but sometimes occur on branches. The leaves are elliptic to lance-shaped, rarely oval-shaped, 3–6 cm (1.2–2.4 in) long, 1.5–2.5 cm (0.59–0.98 in) wide, edges entire, upper and lower surfaces with soft, smooth, star-shaped hairs and both surfaces slightly a different colour on a petiole 0.5–1 cm (0.20–0.39 in) long. The flowers are in a cluster of 1–4 on a peduncle up to 5 mm (0.20 in) long and the individual flowers on a pedicel about 5 mm (0.20 in) long. The corolla is star-shaped, 15–25 mm (0.59–0.98 in) in diameter, purple or bluish, shallowly fused, the calyx 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) long, each lobe 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long. Flowering occurs mostly from spring to summer and the fruit is a red berry, 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) in diameter and mostly covered by the calyx lobes.[2][3]

Taxonomy

Solanum nemophilum was first formally described by Ferdinand von Mueller and the description was published in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.[4]

Distribution and habitat

This species of solanum grows on stony outcrops in south-eastern Queensland and in the Gibraltar Range in New South Wales.[2]

References
  1. "Solanum nemophilum". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  2. Conn, B.J. "Solanum nemophilum". PlantNET-NSW flora online. Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  3. Symon, D.E (1981). "Solanum nemophilum" (PDF). Swainsona (4): 144–145. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  4. von Mueller, Ferdinand (1861). Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae (2 ed.). Melbourne. p. 161. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
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