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Unarmed annual or short-lived perennial herb, often bushy, up to 1 m tall, nearly always glabrous or almost so except when very young. Petioles to 5 cm long. Lamina very variable, in cauline lvs usually 4-10 × 1.5-5.5 cm (lvs at base of lateral shoots often smaller), ovate, ovate-oblong or lanceolate-ovate, entire to coarsely but distantly toothed or lobulate and sometimes with axillary leaflets; base broad-cuneate or attenuate; apex ± acute. Umbels few-flowered, with slender peduncles to c. 2 cm long at anthesis; pedicels becoming deflexed at fruiting. Calyx < 2 mm long, accrescent; lobes ovate to almost elliptic, usually strongly reflexed at fruiting. Corolla 5-8 mm diam., white or very pale mauve, glabrous; lobes ± triangular. Anthers 1-1.6 mm long. Berry 5-8 mm diam., globular, black, glossy; stone cells present. Seeds 1-2 mm long, broadly obovoid to almost orbicular.
Erect or spreading herb or short-lived perennial shrub to 1.3 m high, glabrous or sparsely pubescent with simple hairs, green or the stems and leaves often purplish; prickles absent. Stems often angled or narrowly winged. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate; lamina 2–12 cm long, 1–7 cm wide, concolorous, entire or shallowly lobed; petiole 1–4 (occasionally to 9) cm long. Inflorescence short, 4–12–flowered; peduncle to 25 mm long, lengthening to 45 mm in fruit; pedicels 5–8 mm long. Calyx 1–2 mm long; lobes rounded, 0.4–1.2 mm long. Corolla deeply incised, usually 8–9 mm diam., white or flushed purple with yellow-green centre. Anthers 1.5–2 mm long. Berry globular, 6–9 mm diam., purple-black. Seeds 1–1.5 mm long, light fawn or purplish; stone-cell granules, if present, c. 0.5 mm diam.
Short-lived or annual herb, rarely to 1.5 m tall, glabrate or pubescent; stems terete to strongly angled and toothed, often purplish; not sarmentose. Leaves small to large (2-20 cm long), entire or mostly somewhat toothed. Inflorescence several-flowered, umbellate or nearly so, the peduncle slender, unbranched, appressed-pubescent; pedicels slender, appressed-pubescent, deflexed in bud but erect and spreading in fruit. Flowers small, calyx lobes deltoid to lanceolate, not accrescent; corolla white, blue or mauve, with or without a conspicuous eye, small, to 1 cm across; anthers mostly 0.9-1.4(-2.1) mm long. Fruit black, shiny, 4-8(-15) mm across; seeds 1.2-1.5 mm across. Chomosome number n = 12.
Leaves solitary or occasionally geminate; petiole 0.45–5 cm long, ± narrowly winged particularly distally; lamina 1.8–12 × 0.8–5.5 cm, elliptic to ovate-lanceolate or ovate, base truncate or rounded to cuneate, oblique, ± decurrent into the petiole, apex obtuse or acute, ± acuminate, entire to sinuate, rarely sinuate-dentate, ciliolate, both surfaces often sparsely pubescent, glabrescent.
Cymes lateral, unbranched, ± umbelliform, (1)3–6(10)-flowered; peduncle 0.2–2.8 cm long, slender, deflexed in bud, erect or ascending later, in fruit elongated to 3.7 cm; pedicels 2–7 mm long, slender, in fruit elongated to 14 mm, usually erect and splayed, occasionally reflexed.
Corolla white, cream or yellowish, with or without a conspicuous yellow-green eye, sometimes flushed with purple, mauve or blue, 1.6–4(5) mm across, rotate to deeply stelliform; lobes 1.5–3.5 × 0.5–1.7 mm, oblong or ovate to lanceolate, obtuse or acute, puberulous outside.
A herb. It grows 30-150 cm high. It is an annual plant. The leaves are oval and 5-10 cm long by 2-2.5 cm wide. The leaves vary is shape in different locations. The flowers are in the axils of leaves. The fruit is soft and round. It is 5-6 mm across. It is black or red.
Calyx 1–2(2.5) mm long, campanulate, in fruit somewhat enlarged; lobes 0.2–1.2 × 0.2–1 mm, oblong, semi-elliptic or ovate to lanceolate, rounded to acute, sparsely pubescent to glabrous, in fruit elongated to 1.5 × 2 mm, often strongly reflexed.
Erect or widely spreading annual to short-lived perennial, (10)20–76(150) cm tall, sometimes flushed purplish, glabrescent to moderately pubescent with simple, curved, usually appressed, eglandular hairs.
Fruits shiny, black or purplish-black, with shiny, opaque 4–7(8) mm in diameter, globose or slightly depressed-globose, with or without sclerotic granules, glabrous, edible when mature.
Ovary c. 1 mm in diameter, ± globose, glabrous; style 1.3–4 mm long, straight or obscurely sigmoidal, the stigma level with the tip of the anthers or protruding by up to 1.2 mm.
Seeds 24–70(100) per berry, with light bone-colour and often flushed with purple, 0.8–1.5 mm long, ± ovate in outline, pitted all over.
Herb, up to 1.5 m high, unarmed. Leaves entire, glabrous. Cymes umbellate. Corolla 8-10 mm in diameter. Fruit black. Flowers white.
Branches ± angular to narrowly winged, the ridges or wings smooth or with widely spaced, short teeth or prickle-like hairs.
Stamen filaments 0.3–1.5 mm long; anthers 0.7–1.5(2) mm long, oblong.
