Solanum bonariense (Solanum bonariense)
Description
Solanum bonariense is a species of shrubby plant in the genus Solanum in the Solanaceae family . It is native to South America . It is a shrub, unarmed or spiny, pubescent, with erect stems up to more than 2 m in height. The leaves , of 7-20 by 2-10 cm, are petiolate , glabrous or somewhat hairy, elliptical in outline, ovate or lanceolate and generally with the base of the asymmetric limbus; the margins are sinuolobados, but those of the floriferous branches are whole. The inflorescences are cimosass racemiformes , solitary or in panicles , flowers pedicellate , actinomorphic , hermaphrodite without bracts . The chalice, 5-7 mm, is campanulate, with 5 triangular-lanceolate and acuminate lobes, accentuating, densely star-pubescent and with the tube shorter than the lobes, while the corolla , 25-30 mm in diameter, is rotate, with 5 lobes, bluish or white, star-pubescent on the underside. The fruit is a globose berry 7-12 mm in diameter, included in the calyx, fleshy, first greenish and then yellow or orange at maturity. Its seeds are millimetric, obovoid, angular and whitish in color.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Solanales
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Family: Solanaceae
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Genus: Solanum
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