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Solanum nigrum L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
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Solanum nigrum L.
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Solanum nigrum

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nigrum

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Solanum nigrum L.

Unarmed, annual or short-lived perennial herb to c. 75 cm tall, usually hairy, sometimes nearly glabrous; stems branched, usually green, sometimes dark purple. Petioles to 7 cm long. Lamina c. 2-12 × 1-7 cm, ovate or lanceolate-ovate, entire, sinuate to coarsely dentate, sometimes lobulate, sometimes purple-tinged; hairs usually scattered, short, simple, occasionally glandular; base cuneate to narrowly attenuate; apex acute or obtuse. Cymes pseudoumbellate, usually few-flowered and with at least 1 pedicel arising below peduncle apex; peduncles generally 1-2.5 cm long; pedicels becoming deflexed at fruiting. Calyx 1-3 mm long; lobes ovate, broad-ovate, to almost elliptic, accrescent and appressed to fr. Corolla 10-13 mm diam., usually white, sometimes pale mauve; lobes almost triangular, ± puberulent outside. Anthers 2-2.7 mm long. Berry 7-10 mm diam., globose, usually black and rather dull, sometimes green, yellowish green or pale yellow; stone cells usually 0. Seeds 1.7-2.4 mm diam., broad-obovoid, ellipsoid-obovoid to suborbicular.

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Solanum chlorocarpum (Spenn.) Schur
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Solanum nigrum f. chlorocarpum (Spenn.) Lindm.
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Solanum nigrum L.
Australia
Solanum nigrum L.
China
Solanum nigrum L.
France
Solanum nigrum L.
New Zealand
Solanum nigrum L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Solanum nigrum L.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Solanum nigrum L.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Solanum nigrum L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Solanum nigrum L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Solanum nigrum L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Solanum nigrum L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Solanum nigrum L.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Solanum nigrum L.
United Kingdom

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47c4ae6c-cbc2-4903-82ee-c26712684dab
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
11 December 2007
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