Physalis ampla
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Physalis ampla is a plant type from the genus of jujubes ( Physalis ) in the family of the nightshade family (Solanaceae).
description
Physalis ampla is an herbaceous , upright, branched plant. Its branches are only slightly angled, they are up to 60 cm long, the young shoots are covered with simple, white and protruding trichomes . The leaves are alternate, their leaf blades are 2.2 to 5.6 (rarely up to 10) cm long and 1.1 to 2.7 (rarely up to 3.7) cm wide. They are ovate, lanceolate, ovate to almost circular. To the front they are pointed, sloping down at the base on the petiole , the leaf margin is entire. The young leaves are hairy with trichomes on the leaf surfaces, the edges and the main veins, but later bald. The petiole becomes up to 3 cm long.
The flowers are solitary, the buds are hairy. At flowering time, the flower stalk is 2 to 4 mm long; the calyx is 3 to 6 mm long and has five triangular lobes up to 2 mm long and hairy with long, white trichomes. The crown is bell-shaped, pure yellow or with cherry-red markings and 5 to 6 mm long and just as wide. The anthers are colored blue and 1 to 1.2 mm long, they are up to 7 mm long stamens . The ovary has a 4 mm long stylus with a head-shaped scar .
The fruit is a berry about 10 mm in diameter . It is enclosed by an enlarging calyx, which is ten-angular, about 1.8 to 2.2 cm long and 1.1 to 1.5 cm wide. The ribs and some of the calyx teeth are covered with long, protruding, simple trichomes. The ribs are often colored in different shades of purple. The stalk extends on the fruit to 5 to 6 mm.
Distribution and locations
The species is widespread in Mexico and is found there mainly in Sinaloa and Oaxaca , but there are also records from Guanajuato , Jalisco and Nayarit . The locations are at altitudes between 600 and 1950 m, where the plant occurs in secondary vegetation as a ruderal plant , in accompanying vegetation in maize cultivation , on pastures and in deciduous tropical forests.
proof
- Ofelia Vargas Ponce, Mahinda Martínez Y Dias, Patricia Dávila Aranda: La familia Solanaceae en Jalisco - El género Physalis . Universidad de Guadalajara, Colección Flora de Jalisco, 2003. ISBN 970-27-0369-7 , PDF file, 2.97 MB. .