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Solanum uncinellum
Solanum uncinellum
- Botanic Family
- Solanaceae
- Author
- LIndley
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- N. Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- French Guiana
- Guyana
- Panama
- Peru
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Venezuela
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- coastal
- riverside
- secondary forest
- riverine forest
- forest edge
- woodland
- seasonally inundated forest
Flowering Times
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
Fruiting Times
Scandent shrub or twining herbaceous liana to 4.5m climbing via twisted petioles, puberulent throughout. Leaves to 50mm x 30mm. Terminal densely-flowered racemes or umbels to 300mm long of 40mm white centred violet puberulent flowers with recurved segments, 20mm long, lobed calyx to 4mm x 2mm, corolla lobes to 9mm long. Orange to purple berry to 9mm wide.
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Huxley 1992
- FB
- NYBG
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- FP
- Botanicus
- Rusby