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Solanum laxum Spreng.

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Solanum laxum Spreng., Syst. Veg., ed. 16 [Sprengel] 1, 682 (1824)
Solanum laxum Spreng.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Spreng.
Spreng.
1824
682
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Solanum laxum Spreng.
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Solanum laxum

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laxum

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Unarmed, high climbing liane, glabrate or glabrous; stems to c. 15 m long. Petioles to nearly 3 cm long, slender, twining. Lamina 2-6 × 0.7-3 cm, lanceolate to ovate, sometimes with 1-2 lobes or leaflets at base, otherwise entire, often with tufts of white hairs in vein axils below; base broad-cuneate to truncate; apex obtuse or subacute. Fls several to many, in loose, terminal (later apparently lateral) panicles; rachis to c. 6 cm long; peduncles and pedicels filiform, ± spreading. Calyx 2-3 mm long, glabrous except sometimes for ciliate margin; lobes broad and shallow, slightly accrescent. Corolla 2-3.3 cm diam., white, or very pale mauvish blue, especially in bud, puberulent; lobes triangular-ovate, remaining incurved. Anthers 2.5-4 mm long. Berry 4-6 mm diam., globose, shining, deep to dark blue or nearly black; stone cells 0. Seed c. 1 mm diam., broad- or ellipsoid-obovoid.

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New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
New Zealand
Otago Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Solanum laxum Spreng.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Solanum laxum Spreng.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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22 January 2010
22 February 2010
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