Physalis neomexicana
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Physalis neomexicana is a plant type from the genus of jujubes ( Physalis ) in the family of the nightshade family (Solanaceae).
description
Physalis neomexicana is an annual plant that reaches heights of between 10 and 50 cm. The stems are angled in cross section and tinted blue at least at the tip. They are densely hairy with multicellular, glandular trichomes up to 1.5 cm in length.
The leaves are also covered with multicellular, glandular trichomes. The leaf stalks are 0.5 to 3.5 cm in length. The leaf blades are 2.0 to 6.5 cm long and 1.0 to 5.0 cm wide, are egg-shaped, pointed towards the front and cut off at the base. If the halves of the base of the leaf are oblique, they differ only by less than 3 mm. The leaf margin is notched.
The flowers are on 3.0 to 4.5 mm long pedicels . The calyx is set with pointed, 2.0 to 3.5 mm long calyx teeth. The crown is colored yellow and measures 0.8 to 1.3 cm in diameter. The petals are drawn with five individual dark blue paints. They are hairy at the point of attachment of the stamens . Both stamens and anthers are tinted blue or blue, the anthers are between 0.9 and 1.2 mm long.
When the fruit ripens, the stem extends to a length of 0.8 to 1.0 cm. The enlarging calyx is strongly five-angled, densely hairy glandular and is 2.0 to 3.0 cm long and 2.0 to 2.5 cm wide. It is often as long as it is wide. The fruit is a spherical berry with a diameter of 1.0 to 2.0 cm. It contains a large number of brown colored seeds , which have a finely pitted surface and measure 2.0 to 2.5 mm in diameter.
Distribution and locations
The species occurs exclusively in the Rocky Mountains in the US states of Colorado , New Mexico , Arizona and Texas . It grows at altitudes between 1500 and 2500 m in disturbed pinyon pine and juniper forests or on disturbed grassland.
swell
- Mahinda Martinez: Revision of Physalis Section Epeteiorhiza (Solanaceae) . In: Anales del Instituto de Biología Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , Series Botánica, Vol. 69, No. 2, 1998. pp. 71-117.