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Solanum americanum Mill.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Mill.
Mill.
1768
ICN
Solanum americanum Mill.
species
Solanum americanum

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americanum

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Ample laxly branched plant, subshrubby in lower, herbaceous in upper parts, up to c. 1 m. tall and broad. Stems up to c. 5 mm. diam., glab. or us. nearly so, very finely striate, narrowly margined, somewhat zigzag, internodes up to c. 10 cm. long. Lvs us. of diverse form, often several forms on an individual. Lamina thin, membr., ± glab., reticulations evident; 4-6 × 1·5-3 cm., with smaller axillary Iflts up to c. 10×7 mm., oblong to ovate-oblong to narrow ovate-oblong. Infl. an almost regular to a slightly irregular cymose umbel. Peduncle very slender, up to 15 mm. long, patent; pedicels almost filiform, up to 10 mm. long. Calyx-lobes strongly reflexed at fruiting stage. Corolla c. 8 mm. diam.; anthers 1.1-2 mm. long. Berries black, glistening, ± 6 mm. diam. Seeds (1)-1·5 mm. long. Baylis finds n = 12, pollen-grain diam. in lacto-phenol 20-27 µ, stone-cell masses in fruiting stage 0-4.

Solanum americanum Mill.

Unarmed annual or short-lived perennial herb, often bushy, up to 1 m tall, nearly always glabrous or almost so except when very young. Petioles to 5 cm long. Lamina very variable, in cauline lvs usually 4-10 × 1.5-5.5 cm (lvs at base of lateral shoots often smaller), ovate, ovate-oblong or lanceolate-ovate, entire to coarsely but distantly toothed or lobulate and sometimes with axillary leaflets; base broad-cuneate or attenuate; apex ± acute. Umbels few-flowered, with slender peduncles to c. 2 cm long at anthesis; pedicels becoming deflexed at fruiting. Calyx < 2 mm long, accrescent; lobes ovate to almost elliptic, usually strongly reflexed at fruiting. Corolla 5-8 mm diam., white or very pale mauve, glabrous; lobes ± triangular. Anthers 1-1.6 mm long. Berry 5-8 mm diam., globular, black, glossy; stone cells present. Seeds 1-2 mm long, broadly obovoid to almost orbicular.

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Solanum americanum Mill.
Solanum americanum Mill.
Solanum americanum Mill.
Solanum americanum Mill.
Solanum americanum Mill.
Solanum americanum Mill.
Solanum americanum Mill.
Solanum americanum Mill.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Absent
New Zealand
Political Region
Plants in New Zealand belong to the subspecies Solanum americanum subsp. nutans (R.J.F.Hend.) R.J.F.Hend. (1988) which is now regarded as a synonym of Solanum nodiflorum subsp. nutans R.J.F.Hend.

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Solanum americanum Mill.
China
Solanum americanum Mill.
Cook Islands
Solanum americanum Mill.
Cook Islands
Palmerston
Solanum americanum Mill.
Cook Islands
Rarotonga
Solanum americanum Mill.
French Polynesia
Solanum americanum Mill.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Solanum americanum Mill.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Solanum americanum Mill.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Solanum americanum Mill.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Solanum americanum Mill.
United Kingdom
Cook Islands
Rarotonga
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
New Zealand
Otago Land District
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
New Zealand
Southland Land District
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
26 November 2018
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