Solanum physalifolium Rusby var.
nitidibaccatum (Bitter) Edmonds
Family: Solanaceae
Pertinent Synonyms & Notes (particularly those used in California; go to GRIN for other synonyms)
Solanum sarrachoides Sendtn. has been misapplied to California plants.
Pertinent Common Names (particularly those used in California; go to GRIN for other common names)
hoe nightshade, hairy nightshade
Primary Disseminule Types
fruit (not likely to be dispersed directly to grape bunches), seed
Description (diagnostics are in brown)
Fruit a berry with numerous seeds, globose, shiny, yellowish-green to purplish-green or light brown, 6–10 mm in diameter, with stone cells, deciduous with persistent calyx.
Seed ± obovate in outline, typically notched along margin where hilum occurs, strongly compressed, cross-section elliptic, 1.8–2.3 mm long x 1.3–1.7 mm wide x 0.5–0.7 mm thick. Surface semiglossy, may be particularly dull or rough when dried bits of the mucilaginous envelope remain; otherwise, surface is reticulate-pitted, with the sinuous cell walls forming a maze of minute undulating ridges (may also have striations or appressed hair-like or scale-like cell wall structures on top of the reticulations and interspaces), straw-colored to brown.
Hilum marginal, in notch, linear to narrowly elliptic, whitish (lighter than testa), (0.5)0.6–0.8 mm long.
Similar Species
Compare to Similar Species of Solanum and Similar Species of Lycium & Physalis.
Risk Assessment (codes in yellow or red indicate cause for concern; assessments are current as of mid-2011; click AUQP, NZBORIC, or NZBPI for access to the most recent versions of these databases and possible assessment changes)
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