Physalis sordida
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Physalis sordida is a plant from the genus of jujubes ( Physalis ) in the family of the nightshade family (Solanaceae).
description
Physalis sordida is a 10 to 50 cm high, perennial plant that arises from a woody base, which in turn forms a horizontal rhizome about 3 to 5 cm below the surface of the earth. The herbaceous parts are usually hairy with brownish, flat, articulated and protruding trichomes , which can be up to 1 mm long and some of which are glandular. The leaf blades of the leaves are almost circular to ovate or ovate-lanceolate. The larger leaves are 3 to 7 cm long and 2.5 to 6 cm wide. They are similar to the shoot axis, but less hairy, occasionally the trichomes are more laid out. The leaf margin is roughly and irregularly protruding serrated or bent back serrated to almost the entire margin. The leaf stalks are 1.5 to 5 cm long.
The crown is colored yellow and marked with 5 darker, but not clearly protruding marks. It becomes 10 to 13 mm long and 10 to 15 mm wide and is bent back in the shape of a wheel or a wheel. The outline is almost pentagonal and has only faint arcs. The anthers are tinged with yellow and blue or green, they reach a length of 3 to 4 mm and are about the same length, somewhat thickened stamens .
The fruit is a spherical to egg-shaped, 10 to 15 mm wide berry , which is sessile or almost sessile. It is surrounded by an enlarging calyx, which is 15 to 30 mm long and 13 to 20 mm wide on the ripe fruit and has a ten-angled or ten-ribbed cross-section.
distribution
The species is common in Mexico and Honduras .
swell
- UT Waterfall: Physalis in Mexico, Central America and the West Indies . In: Rhodora , Volume 69, Number 777, New England Botanical Club, Oxford, 1967. pp. 82-120.