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Solanum aturense

Botanic Family

Solanaceae

Author

Humboldt & Bonpland ex Dunal

Common Names

• Ungue de Gato (Venezuela)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• floodplain forest
• forest
• cloud forest
• coastal
• riverside

Flowering Times

• All year (Nicaragua)
• Aug (Venezuela)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Nicaragua)

Armed liane, tree or shrub with hairy stems, prickly & rusty-tomentose branches, leaves to 110mm x 48mm, with stellate hairs & prickly with recurved thorns to 1.5mm long, mid-rib of leaves & calyx prickly. Extra-axillary rusty-tomentose 25-40 flowered racemes to 70mm diameter of 50mm diameter white flowers within, violet outside, calyx to 5.5mm x 7mm, corolla 20mm diameter, corolla tube 1mm long. Fruit to 25mm x 35mm, red or orange

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Fedde
• Botanicus