Berenjena (Solanum laurifolium)

Berenjena (Solanum laurifolium)
N omb res comu n es: Pustoqkonot (ND) / Tzopilotlácuatl (Náhuatl) / Ishlishtochuochate, Listocoshat,
Shishtocxat (Totonaco)
Si n ón i mos: Solanum cymosum, Solanum schiedeanum
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Formal description
Habit
Shrubs or small trees 1-6 m high, unarmed. Trunks to 12 cm in diameter; bark of older stems gray to
pale brown, the young branches longitudinally angled and grooved, granular whitish to yellowish
tomentose, with hairs sessile or short-stalked, echinoid and dendritic-echinoid.
Sympodial Structure
Sympodial units plurifoliate, axillary leaves present or absent.
Leaves
Leaves simple, the blades usually 10-34 x 3-14 cm, ca. 1.75-2 times as long as wide, ovate or ovateelliptic, sometimes obovate, relatively thin, minutely asperous to finely velutinous adaxially, with hairs
rather sparse, touching to distantly spaced, mostly sessile, vestigial, simple, porrect-stellate and
multangulate, moderately pubescent to whitish tomentose abaxially, with hairs stalked, mostly porrectstellate and multangulate; unarmed; main lateral veins 6-9 on each side of midvein; base short- or longattenuate; margins entire; apex acute to acuminate; petioles 1-6 cm, ca. 1/10-3/10 the length of the
blades, finely granular-tomentose, with hairs mostly echinoid, sessile.
Inflorescences
Inflorescences 7-19 cm, pseudo-terminal, becoming lateral due to continued growth of stem, several
times dichotomously branched, with ca. 20-100 flowers, the axes unarmed, granular-tomentose with
sessile or short-stalked hairs, the hairs mostly echinoid and dendritic-echinoid on peduncle,
multangulate and echinoid on branches and pedicels; peduncle 4-15 cm, 1.5-3.5 mm thick; rachis 1.5-8
cm; pedicels 3-8 mm in flower, 5-10 mm in fruit, closely spaced ca. 0.5-3 mm apart, articulated at the
base.
Flowers
Flower buds orbicular, with distinct swollen bases, i.e., receptacles thickened, 4-5 mm long at anthesis,
tomentose, with hairs multangulate and echinoid; calyx lobe sutures obscured by tomentum. Flowers all
apparently perfect; calyx ca. 4.75-5.75 mm long, lobed about 3/4 way to the base or more, stelliform,
chartaceous, the tube 1.5-2.75 mm, the lobes 2.2-3.9 x 1.3-2 mm in flower, 2.6-5 x 1.1-2.5 mm in fruit,
ovate, tomentose abaxially, with hairs sessile, multangulate and echinoid, moderately pubescent to
tomentose adaxially, with hairs porrect-stellate and multangulate. Corolla inserted in calyx until
anthesis, 0.8-1.4 cm in diameter, 6-11 mm long, stellate-rotate, chartaceous, white, the tube 2-4 mm, the
lobes 3.75-7 x 2.75-4.5 mm, ovate, acute at apices, tomentose abaxially, with hairs mostly sessile, porrectstellate and multangulate, sparsely to moderately pubescent toward apices adaxially, with hairs simple
or stellate. Stamens with filaments 0.9-1.3 mm long, inserted on corolla tube 1.0-1.4 mm above base,
glabrous; anthers 2-3 x 0.8-1.4 mm, oblong to slightly obelliptic, blunt-tipped, yellow, glabrous, free,
dehiscing by large introrse apical-lateral pores, the pores lengthening to slits with age. Ovary conical,
glabrous or with occasional stellate hairs; style 6-8 x 0.2-0.3 mm, cylindrical, glabrous or sparsely
stellate-pubescent; stigma subcapitate.
Fruits
Fruit a fleshy berry, 0.8-1.1 cm in diameter, subglobose, obtuse at apex, green turning yellow when ripe,
glabrescent.
Seeds
Seeds 1.5-2.3 x 1.3-1.8 mm, mostly reniform, deltoid or suborbicular, yellowish brown, the testa
honeycombed reticulate-punctate.
Type information 1
Isotyp e for Solanum hazenii Britton
Catal og N u mb er: US 1194290
Col l ecti on : Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Veri fi cati on Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Prep arati on : Pressed specimen
Col l ector(s): N. L. Britton & T. E. Hazen
Year Col l ected : 1920
Local i ty: Saddle road., Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies
Statistics of barcoding coverage: solanum hazenii 2
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 4
Species With Barcodes: 1
References
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