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Kakmachi

Common Names


Makoy

About    Taxonomy


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CLASSIFICATION


TAXON 


Solanum nigrum L.

FAMILY 


Solanaceae Juss.

ALTERNATE FAMILY


nom. cons.

TRIBE


Solanoideae

GENUS 


Solanum L.

SPECIES


nigrum L. Sp. pl. 1:186. 1753


Plant Description


Annual 15-60 cm tall, with a suffrut escent base; branches and shoots subglabrous or pubescent to glandular-villous; hairs appressed or patent. Leaves 2.5-10 x 2-5.5 cm, sinuate to irregularly dentate, glabrous to puberulous-pubescent or glandular. Lamina ± decurrent. Petiole 8-40 mm long, appressed pubescent or glandular. Peduncle (8-) 10-25 min long, exceeding or shorter than the pedicel length. Calyx lobes 1-1.5(-2) mm long, glabrous to pubescent. Corolla much exceeding the calyx in length; lobes triangular-acute, 4-6 mm long; anthers yellow, dehiscing by 2 apical pores. Filaments as long or shorter than the anthers, pilose. Style ± included, pubescent at the base. Stigma capitate. Ovary glabrous. Berry globose to subovoid, 5-8 mm broad, black or orange-red. Seeds discoid, minutely reticulate-foveolate.

 

*Description source:  Efloras.org

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