Physalis vestita
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Physalis vestita is a plant type from the genus of jujubes ( Physalis ) in the family of the nightshade family (Solanaceae).
description
Physalis vestita is a perennial , herbaceous plant that sprouts with several shoots from an elongated, woody rootstock . The shoots are 15 to 65 cm long, are woolly hairy and are usually ascending to climbing. Occasionally the plants are not lignified at the base either. The leaves are egg-shaped and densely gray and woolly hairy. The leaf margin is irregularly serrated to wavy. The leaves are 25 to 40 mm long and 15 to 28 mm wide. The petioles are densely hairy and 10 to 35 mm long.
The flowers are on 4 to 6 mm long pedicels . The calyx is 3 to 4 mm long and 4 to 5 mm wide at flowering time. The calyx lobes are triangular and 1 mm long. The crown is pale greenish-yellow and spotted, the corolla tube is hairy inside. The crown is 7 to 10 mm long and 10 to 13 mm in diameter. The anthers are blue to purple and 3 to 4 mm long, the stamens are thread-like and 2.5 to 4 mm long.
The fruits stand on stems that have elongated to 7 to 13 mm. The calyx is enlarged to 15 to 22 mm in length and 13 to 18 mm in diameter on the fruit and is pentagonal in cross-section. The berry is 8 to 10 mm in diameter.
Occurrence
The species is common in Mexico .
supporting documents
- Umaldy Theodore Waterfall: Physalis in Mexico, Central America and the West Indies . In: Rhodora , Volume 69, Number 770, New England Botanical Club, Oxford 1967. pp. 319-329.