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LYCOPERSICON Mill.
Herbs, shrubs, climbers or trees, unarmed or spiny, often stellate-hairy. Stipules 0, but Solanum mauritianum has prominent pseudostipules. Leaves alternate, entire, lobed to pinnatisect or pinnate. Inflorescences often extra-axillary, mostly racemose or umbellate cymes or terminal panicles. Calyx (4-)5-10-toothed or lobed, not or only slightly enlarging in fruit. Corolla often rotate, (4-)5(-6)-lobed, white, yellow, blue or purple. Filaments shorter than anthers; anthers often connivent, dehiscing by apical pores, Ovary 2(-4)-locular. Fruit a ± spherical berry. Derivation of name: Ex Latin; solamen, quieting, alluding to the sedative properties Worldwide: 1700 species, more or less cosmopolitan, especially in warm countries Malawi: 26 taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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Species | FZ divisions | Content |
aculeastrum Dunal var. aculeastrum | C,S | Description, Image |
aculeatissimum Jacq. | Description, Image | |
americanum Mill. | N | Image |
anguivi Lam. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
betaceum Cav. | C | Description, Image |
campylacanthum 'panduriforme type' | N,C,S | Description, Image |
campylacanthum 'incanum type' | N,C,S | Description, Image |
chrysotrichum Schltdl. | C | Description, Image |
giganteum Jacq. | C,S | Description, Image |
goetzei Dammer | N,S | Description, Image |
grossidentatum A. Rich. | N,C | Description |
lycopersicum L. | Description, Image | |
macrocarpon L. | S | Description, Image |
mammosum L. | ||
mauritianum Scop. | S | Description, Image |
nigrum L. | S | Image |
retroflexum Dunal | C,S | Description, Image |
richardii Dunal var. richardii | C,S | |
richardii Dunal var. burtt-davyi (Dunkley) A.E. Gonç. | C | |
schumannianum Dammer | N,C,S | |
seaforthianum Andr. | C,S | Description, Image |
tarderemotum Bitter | N,C,S | |
terminale Forssk. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
tettense Klotzsch var. tettense | S | Description, Image |
tettense Klotzsch var. renschii (Vatke) A.E. Gonç. | S | Description, Image |
torvum Sw. | S | Description, Image |
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