Solanum nemophilum
species of plant
Solanum nemophilum, is a flowering plant in the family Solanaceae and grows in New South Wales and Queensland. It has purple flowers and is densely covered with star-shaped hairs.
Description
Solanum nemophilum is a shrub to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) high, thickly covered in star-shaped hairs, rarely prickly but sometimes occur on branches. The leaves are elliptic to lance-shaped, rarely oval-shaped, 3–6 cm (1.2–2.4 in) long, 1.5–2.5 cm (0.59–0.98 in) wide, edges entire, upper and lower surfaces with soft, smooth, star-shaped hairs and both surfaces slightly a different colour on a petiole 0.5–1 cm (0.20–0.39 in) long. The flowers are in a cluster of 1–4 on a peduncle up to 5 mm (0.20 in) long and the individual flowers on a pedicel about 5 mm (0.20 in) long. The corolla is star-shaped, 15–25 mm (0.59–0.98 in) in diameter, purple or bluish, shallowly fused, the calyx 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) long, each lobe 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long. Flowering occurs mostly from spring to summer and the fruit is a red berry, 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) in diameter and mostly covered by the calyx lobes.
Taxonomy
Solanum nemophilum was first formally described by Ferdinand von Mueller and the description was published in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.
Distribution and habitat
This species of solanum grows on stony outcrops in south-eastern Queensland and in the Gibraltar Range in New South Wales.
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