Thank you very very very much Prabhu ji for the correction. I will do the changes in my flickr notes shortly. Regards. Dinesh
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Prabhu kumar KM <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear Dineshji Good shot............ > But it is not *S. lasiocarpum* > I think it is *Solanum violaceum* Ortega ssp. *violaceum* > Please check. > *S. lasiocarpum: *Robust shrubs, to 1.5 m high; stems densely spineus > prickled and stellate hairy. Leaves to 35 x 35 cm, ovate-orbicular, entire > or shallowly lacerate; stellate hairs unequally armed; petioles 5-10 cm > long. Flowers in groups of 2-3, axillary, epedunculate; pedicels short; > calyx densely stellate hairy; corolla 3-4 cm across, blue, hairy outside; > ovary densely hairy. Berry 3-5 cm across, globose, densely covered with > spineus bristles. > > *Solanum violaceum* Ortega ssp. *violaceum: *Armed undershrubs, up to > 1.5 m tall; branches minutely stellate-hairy on young parts, glabrate when > mature. Leaves 5-12 x 4-7 cm, ovate or ovate-oblong, sinuately to deeply > lobed, base rounded or unequal, apex subacute, sparsely stellate-hairy > above, stellate-woolly beneath, prickly on the nerves; petiole to 2.5 cm > long. Flowers bluish-violet in extra-axillary racemes; peduncle c. 4 cm > long; pedicel to 8 mm long. Calyx cupular; lobes 5, c. 5 mm long, > triangular, prickly. Corolla c. 2 cm across, campanulate. Stamens 5; > anthers c. 5 mm long. Ovary c. 2 x 2 mm, globose; stigma acute. Berry > 0.8-1.3 cm across, globose; orange yellow when ripe. > > > > -- > *Prabhu Kumar K M* > Scientist > Plant Systematics & Genetic Resources Division > Centre for Medicinal Plants Research (CMPR) > & 'CMPR' Herbarium > Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala > Kottakkal, Malappuram > *E-mail: [email protected]* > > --
