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Western Horsenettle, Solanum dimidiatum ....

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Taken on April 29, 2012 in Waco city, Texas state, Southern of America

Vietnamese named : Cà dại lá gai
Common names : Western Horsenettle, TORREY'S NIGHTSHADE.
Scientist name : Solanum dimidiatum Raf.
Synonyms :
Family : Solanaceae / Potato family . Họ Cà
KingdomPlantae – Plants
SubkingdomTracheobionta – Vascular plants
SuperdivisionSpermatophyta – Seed plants
DivisionMagnoliophyta – Flowering plants
ClassMagnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
SubclassAsteridae
OrderSolanales
GenusSolanum L. – nightshade
SpeciesSolanum dimidiatum Raf. – western horsenettle

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Perennial 3–8 dm, from rhizome, little-branched; prickles slender, yellowish; hairs stellate, some short-stalked
Leaf 8–15 cm, ovate, wavy to 5–7-lobed, teeth or lobes generally entire
Inflorescence: branches 2–3
Flower: calyx 8–13 mm; corolla 30–50 mm wide, generally purple (white); anthers 8–12 mm, ± equal
Fruit 25–30 mm diam, yellow

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Synonymy

*Solanum dimidiatum Raf., Aut. Bot. 8: 107 (1840)
T: Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas; n.v.

[S. carolinense auct. non L.: H.E. Kleinschmidt & R.W. Johnson, Weeds Queensland 202 (1979)]

Description

Clonal perennial herb to 50 cm, green, pubescent with minute stellate hairs; prickles to 7 mm long, scattered on midrib of lower leaf-surface, petioles and stems.

Leaves ovate to broadly lanceolate; lamina 5–12 cm long, 3–7 cm wide, slightly discolorous, lobed; lobes broadly triangular to oblong; petiole 1–4 cm long.

Inflorescence often forked, few–15–flowered; peduncle 1–2 cm long to first fork; rachis 2–5 cm long; pedicels 1 cm long. Calyx 8–10 mm long; lobes broadly triangular with slender apex, 3–5 mm long. Corolla stellate, shallowly incised, 30–40 mm diam., violet. Anthers 5–7 mm long.

Berry globular, 15–20 mm diam., yellow. Seeds 2.5–4 mm long, pale buff. n=36.

Distribution and ecology

Native to south-eastern U.S.A. Introduced to Australia and naturalised in the Bundaberg area, Qld, where associated with the sugar cane industry.

Bean (2004) records that the species was targetted for eradication and has not been seen since 1972.

Common name

Western horsenettle, Torrey's nightshade

Relationships

While considered to be part of the subg. Leptostemonum its relationships within the group are not known further. It was not part of the Levin et al. (2006) molecular analysis of the subgenus.

**** en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanum_dimidiatum

Solanum dimidiatum is a species of nightshade known by the common names Torrey's nightshade, western horsenettle, and robust horsenettle. It is native to the central United States, where it grows in many types of habitat, including disturbed areas. In California it is known as an introduced species and a noxious weed.[1] It is a rhizomatous perennial herb producing an erect stem up to 80 centimeters tall. It is covered in yellow prickles and branched hairs. The leaves may be up to 15 centimeters long, their edges wavy to lobed and sometimes toothed. The inflorescence is a branching array of several flowers. Each flower has a bell-shaped corolla measuring 3 to 5 centimeters wide. It is lavender to purple, or white. The five large, yellow anthers are about a centimeter long. The fruit is a spherical yellow berry up to 3 centimeters wide.

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www.kswildflower.org/largePhotos.php?imageID=2128&aCa... : LEAF PRICKLES

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