Yaltomata viridiflora
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Jaltomata viridiflora is a plant type from the genus jaltomata in the family of the nightshade family (Solanaceae).
description
Jaltomata viridiflora is an herbaceous plant or shrub up to 2 m high , which occasionally grows climbing. The leaves and young shoots are velvety to tomentose with multicellular, single-row, unbranched trichomes , which occasionally have glandular heads. The leaf blades are entire to toothed, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, the tip is pointed.
The inflorescences consist of (rarely only one) two (rarely up to four) flowers . The crown is tubular, the (1 to) 2 cm long corolla tube is pale green, more rarely white or pale yellow, five larger corolla lobes alternate with five smaller ones, all are bulging. The anthers are 1.7 to 2.2 mm long, they can be of different lengths like the stamens within a flower. The stamens and the stigma can be offset by 5 mm in each direction and thus protrude beyond the crown.
The fruits are orange to reddish berries that are slightly flattened, round, 13 to 19 mm in diameter and 10 to 12 mm in length.
distribution
The species occurs in the Andes of western Venezuela to Ecuador . There it grows at altitudes of 2,500 to 3,400 m in subparamo- and disturbed locations.
swell
- Thomas Mione, Gregory J. Anderson and 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. Pages 138-145.
Web links
- Jaltomata viridiflora on Thomas Mione's website