Yaltomata ventricosa
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Jaltomata ventricosa is a plant type from the genus jaltomata in the family of the nightshade family (Solanaceae).
description
Jaltomata ventricosa are upright, hairless, up to 1 m high shrubs . The leaves are egg-shaped, pointed towards the front, about 6.5 cm long and 4.5 cm wide. They have entire margins or, more rarely, with no more than three teeth per leaf side, serrated or serrated. The tops of the leaves are bright green.
The inflorescences usually consist of one to two (rarely up to four) flowers , which are on a 4 to 9 mm long, green, rotating inflorescence stalk. The green, round peduncle is 7 to 16 mm long, always longer than the peduncle on which it stands. The flowers are nodding to pendulous from 45 °. Viewed from the side, the shiny, bright green calyx looks triangular, it is 18 to 22 mm long. The calyx lobes have a radius of about 9.5 to 10 mm, the radii of the spaces between them are 3 to 5 mm. The crown has an urn-shaped corolla tube, the coronet is completely bent, ten-lobed and 8 to 10 mm wide. The crown has a diameter of 12 to 14.5 mm, is whitish to light yellow and does not close at night. The base of the crown fills with an orange-red nectar that is visible from the outside through the crown. The stamens are 14 to 15 mm long without the enlarged base and about 7 to 9 mm beyond the crown. The slender part of the stamens is covered in the lower half with purple hairs, which are divided into up to four branches. The unopened anthers are 2.6 to 3.0 mm long and 2.0 to 2.2 mm wide, after opening they are 2 to 2.3 mm long. The stylus has a length of 13.8 to 15.7 mm. In the ovary of the three carpels 118-181 were in each ovules found.
The ripe berries are said to have been red on the collected plants; in cultivation they are orange.
distribution
The species is only known from the department of La Libertad ( Peru ), where it grows at an altitude of 2,500 to 3,000 m on the side of roads, stone walls and rocky areas. There the plant is called "Sogorome" or "Sorogome", the berries are eaten.
swell
- Thomas Mione, Gregory J. Anderson, Michael Nee: Jaltomata I: circumscription, description, and new combinations for five South American species (Solaneae, Solanaceae) . In: Brittonia. Volume 45, Number 2, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY 1993, pp. 138-145.
Web links
- Jaltomata ventricosa on the website of Thomas Mione