Solanum incomptum Bitter

Species

Angiosperms > Solanales > Solanaceae > Solanum

Characteristics

florescence mostly opposite the leaves but sometimes appearing axillary or lateral, a subumbellate raceme on a short, unbranched or sparingly branched peduncle, not elongating in fruit; pedicels filiform, 4-6 mm long, elongating to 15 mm and stiffening in fruit. Flowers with the calyx glabrous, 1-2 mm long, mostly with minute but distinctly acuminate teeth, splitting before the corolla emerges or later, in fruit to 10 mm across and the lobes appearing deltoid; corolla greenish-white, ca. 12 mm across, lobed nearly to the base; anthers 2-4 mm long, dehiscing by large terminal pores. Fruit globose, to 1 cm across.
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Shrub or small tree to 4.5 m tall; twigs soon glabrescent. Leaves 7-15 cm long, lanceolate to broadly ovate or elliptic, narrowed or obtuse, apically and basally, the margins slightly revolute, glabrous to sparsely pilose above, beneath with scattered straight hairs on the lamina and pilose along the midveins and the lamina near it; petioles 1-2 cm long; minor leaves very variable, from small and rotund-auriculate to almost equalling the majors, sometimes wanting. In-
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 4.5
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 15 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 26
Germination luminosity light
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Distribution

Solanum incomptum world distribution map, present in Costa Rica and Panama

Identifiers

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WFO ID wfo-0001028587
COL ID 4Y2TW
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Synonyms

Solanum incomptum Solanum copeyanum Solanum incomptum var. longiuspilosum Solanum incomptum var. lugens