Physalis microcarpa
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Physalis microcarpa is a plant type from the genus of jujubes ( Physalis ) in the family of the nightshade family (Solanaceae).
description
Physalis microcarpa is an herbaceous plant up to 0.4 m high, which grows slightly to heavily branched, upright or sometimes almost prostrate. The stems are hairy with short, curved trichomes . The leaf blades are entire to slightly wavy, lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate. The larger leaves are 1.5 to 6 cm long and 0.5 to 2 cm wide. The tip is pointed, sometimes long, the base is blunt, rounded or pointed. The top and bottom are hairy with short, bent trichomes. The leaf stalks are 0.4 to 2 cm long.
The flowers are solitary on 0.5 to 2 mm long peduncles . The calyx is 1.2 to 2 mm long at flowering, covered with hairy trichomes and triangular to egg-shaped, 0.4 to 0.6 mm long lobes. The crown is 2 to 3 mm long, unspotted and slightly hairy on the inside. The stamens are 0.5 to 0.7 mm long, the anthers are 0.4 to 0.6 mm long, bluish or purple, occasionally (possibly due to fading) also yellowish.
The fruit calyx is almost round, slightly ten-ribbed, 0.5 to 1 cm long and 0.5 to 0.6 mm wide and sparsely covered with relatively short trichomes. The fruit stalk is 3 to 4 mm long, the berry measures 3 to 4.5 mm in diameter.
Occurrence
The species occurs in Guatemala , El Salvador , Honduras and on the West Indies and grows in damp thickets at altitudes of 300 to 850 m.
swell
- Johnnie L. Gentry Jr. and Paul Standley: Flora of Guatemala. Solanaceae , Fieldiana: Botany, Volume 24, Part X, Numbers 1 and 2. Field Museum of Natural History, 1974.