Physalis acutifolia
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Physalis acutifolia is a plant type from the genus of jujubes ( Physalis ) in the family of the nightshade family (Solanaceae).
description
Physalis acutifolia is an annual , almost hairless plant. The few trichomes present are short, firm, flattened, and close-fitting. The leaf blades of the leaves are ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate. The spreading of the larger leaves are usually 4 to 12 cm long and are attached to petioles with a length of 1.5 to 7 cm. The leaf margin is usually irregular and often serrated, occasionally it is serrated regularly and expansively.
The flowers are on peduncles that are five to twelve times as long as the calyx . This is usually 4 to 5 mm long. The crown is light yellow and sometimes tinged with green. The corolla tube is short, the coronary hem measures 15 to 23 mm in diameter and is wheel-shaped. There are five hairy fields between the stamens near the base of the coronet. The anthers are usually 3 mm long, colored yellow and tinted blue or blue-green. They stand on slender stamens that are slightly longer than the anthers.
The fruit is a berry that sometimes almost completely fills the enlarged calyx surrounding it. This is 20 to 25 mm long and 17 to 20 mm wide and stands on a flower stalk that extends to 2.5 to 6 mm .
distribution
The species is common in Mexico .
literature
- UT Waterfall: Physalis in Mexico, Central America and the West Indies . In: Rhodora , Volume 69, Number 778, New England Botanical Club, Oxford 1967. pp. 203-239.