Tzeltalia calidaria
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Tzeltalia calidaria is a plant type from the genus Tzeltalia in the family of the nightshade family (Solanaceae).
description
Tzeltalia calidaria is an herbaceous plant that grows to a height of 0.5 to 2 m . The lower parts may become slightly lignified. The stems are hairless or hairy with short, brownish, curved trichomes , but these lose themselves with age. The leaves have entire margins or have a few angled lobes. They are ovate to lanceolate-elliptical or elliptical. The larger leaves are 8 to 20 cm long and 4 to 9 cm wide. The leaves are pointed towards the front, the base is pointed or blunt, occasionally tapering to a short point. On the top there are a few scattered, multicellular trichomes, on the bottom, especially along the veins, they are more dense. The leaf stalks are 1 to 3 cm long.
The inflorescences usually consist of two to five flowers , the flowers are rarely single, sometimes just a single flower of an inflorescence forms a ripe fruit. The flower stalks are 8 to 16 mm long and thickened towards the top. The calyx is 3 to 10 cm long at flowering time. Except for a ciliate border, it is hairless or completely hairy. It can be almost unlapped or weak and broad with only 1 mm long lobes. The crown is greenish-yellow or pale-yellow, the coronet has a diameter of 20 to 35 mm and is spotted. The corolla lobes are egg-shaped. The corolla tube and the base of the corolla lobes are densely hairy. The stamens are 3 to 5 mm long, the anthers 2.5 to 3 mm.
On the fruit, the calyx enlarges to 2.5 to 5 cm in length and 2 to 3 cm in diameter and is strongly inflated. It is decagonal in cross-section, the surface is hairless and veined like a network. The berry is 8 to 10 mm in diameter.
distribution
The species is widespread in Guatemala and southern Mexico and grows in moist forests at altitudes of 2300 to 2850 m.
swell
- Johnnie L. Gentrie, Jr. and Paul C. Standley: Physalis calidaria In: Flora Of Guatemala , Fieldiana, Botany Series, Volume 24, Part 10, Numbers 1 and 2. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1974.