7401.000 Physalis L.

Description of the genus

Annual to perennial herbs, sometimes shrubby. Leaves simple, entire to coarsely and irregularly dentate. Flowers solitary, axillary. Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, unwinged, strongly accrescent in fruit. Corolla broadly campanulate to funnel-shaped, shallowly to deeply lobed. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit a berry.

Worldwide: c. 80 species, mostly New World; widely naturalised elsewhere

Physalis peruviana

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SpeciesLinks to mapsFZ divisionsContent
angulata L.N,W,S
ixocarpa Hornem.W,C,E,SDescription, Image
lagascae Roem. & Schult.N,W,E
peruviana L.N,W,C,E,SDescription, Image
philadelphica Lam.C,E
viscosa L.W

Other sources of information about Physalis:

Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Physalis page
Flora of Mozambique: Physalis
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Physalis
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Physalis
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Physalis
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Physalis
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Physalis

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, 2002-13

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. & Ballings, P. (2013). Flora of Zimbabwe: Genus page: Physalis.
http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1247, retrieved 26 May 2013

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