7401.000 Physalis
Ntore, S. & Sosef, M.S.M. (2020) Solanaceae Flore d'Afrique Centrale Nouvelle Serie Jardin Botanique Meise, Belgique
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. 90 species from tropical and subtropical America, mainly in Mexico. Many species now widely dispersed in warm and temperate regions of the Old World and Australia, mostly as weeds of cultivation; some cultivated for their edible fruit. Zimbabwe: 5 taxa. |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| angulata L. | N,W,S | Description, Image |
| lagascae Roem. & Schult. | N,W,E | |
| peruviana L. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| philadelphica Lam. | W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| viscosa L. | W |
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External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): PhysalisBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Physalis
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Physalis
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Physalis
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iNaturalist: Physalis
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Physalis
JSTOR Plant Science: Physalis
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Physalis
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Wikipedia: Physalis