| Dicotyledon | Literature for Solanum incompletum
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Solanaceae -- The Nightshade Family | Bibliography |
| Solanum incompletum | |
Common name(s): nightshade, tomato, popolo, popolo ku mai |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Kaua`i, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. |
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| Habit |
Shrubs up to 3 m tall, armed with prominent reddish prickles, scattered to abundant on stems, usually on the leaves at least on lower surface, 3-5 mm long, laterally flattened at base, usually absent from the inflorescence, sometimes pubescent with yellowish stellate hairs, dense on young parts and lower leaf surface (veins prominent), becoming glabrate, sparser on upper leaf surface with age. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves simple, alternate, ovate-elliptic to elliptic in outline, 10-15 cm long, 6-8 cm wide, but often somewhat smaller, veins prominent on lower surface, margins deeply (1/3 to midrib) or shallowly lobed (more so in juvenile phases?) with 1-4 distinct to obscure lobes per side, apex acute to acuminate, base rounded, oblique, petioles 4-7 cm long, sometimes armed. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers perfect, actinomorphic, numerous in compound, subpaniculate, racemose cymes with up to 5 orders of branching, leaf-opposed, pedicels 8-10 mm long; calyx 3-4 mm long, deeply lobed, sometimes somewhat 2-lipped; corolla white, broadly stellate, ca. 2 cm in diameter, the lobes ovate, densely pubescent externally, glabrous within; filaments short, inserted low on corolla tube; anthers arcuate, elliptic-oblong, ca. 2 mm long, opening by terminal pores; ovary globose, ca. 1 mm long, pubescent toward apex; style erect, ca. 4 mm long; stigma shortly 2-lobed. |
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| Fruit |
Berries possibly maturing through yellowish orange to black, 1.3-1.8 cm in diameter or perhaps more. |
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| Notes |
Probably self-incompatible. |
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