Lycianthes laevis (Dunal) Bitter

 
  • Family : SOLANACEAE
  • Family (As per The Plant List) : Solanaceae
  • Species : Lycianthes laevis
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Lycianthes laevis (Dunal) Bitter
  • Collection Nos : HFP 2029, CJS 14219
  • Key identification features : An unarmed subshrub. Leaves are simple, unequally paired. Inflorescence is 1-10-flowered fascicle in leaf axils. Flowers are actinomorphic, 5-merous and pedicellate. Calyx is cup-shaped, Corolla white, rotate or stellate, shallowly or deeply divided. Fruit is globose, orangish. Seeds are small and numerous.
  • Habit : Undershrub
  • Native : India, Sri Lanka, Java
  • Comments : Not common. Often mistaken for a species of Solanum.
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Chikamagalur, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Shimoga, Uttara Kannada, Dakshina Kannada, Udupi
  • Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara

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