Physalis campanula
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Physalis campanula is a plant type from the genus of jujubes ( Physalis ) in the family of the nightshade family (Solanaceae).
description
Physalis campanula is a herbaceous plant that can reach a height of 60 cm. It is covered with protruding, multicellular trichomes of various lengths, some of which have glandular heads. However, with age the plant becomes bare. The leaves are lobed with entire or slightly wavy and ovoid shapes. The larger leaf blades have a size of 5 to 12 × 3 to 5 cm, the tip is pointed or tapered, the base rounded. The hairiness of the leaves is similar to the hairiness of the stem axis. The leaf stalks are 1 to 4.5 cm long.
The flowers , which bloom from February to April, stand individually in the armpits on about 20 cm long peduncles, during the flowering phase the calyx is about 10 to 11 mm long and densely hairy with similar trichomes as on the stem axis. The calyx lobes are triangular, 3.5 to 5 mm long and pointed long. The red, orange or yellow crown , not marked with spots, has a tubular-bell-shaped shape, which is relatively untypical for the genus, and is about 18 to 19 mm long. Below the middle it is hairy, above it becomes somewhat bulbous. The coronet is indistinctly serrated. The stamens are 8 to 9 mm long, the anthers are bluish in color and about 3 mm long.
The fruit is a berry with a diameter of about 10 mm, it stands on a 25 to 30 mm long stem and is surrounded by a greatly enlarging calyx, which is about 25 mm long and 15 mm wide. Even while the fruit is ripening, the calyx is densely covered with trichomes, some of which have glandular heads.
Occurrence and locations
The species is only known from a few collections, it probably grows endemically on dry banks of rivers at altitudes between 2,200 and 2,500 m between Sibinal and Canjulá ( Guatemala ) and in Hidalgo , Veracruz and Oaxaca ( Mexico ).
swell
- Johnnie L. Gentry Jr. and Paul Standley: Flora of Guatemala. Solanaceae , Fieldiana: Botany, Volume 24, Part X, Numbers 1 and 2. Field Museum of Natural History, 1974.
- Michael Nee: Flora de Veracruz. Solanaceae I , Fascículu 49, Instituo National de Investigaciones, Xalapa, Veracruz, February 1986.