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Annual to shrub.
Leaf: generally simple, generally alternate, generally petioled; stipules 0; blade entire to deeply lobed.
Inflorescence: various.
Flower: bisexual; calyx lobes generally 5; corolla ± radial, cylindric to rotate, lobes generally 5; stamens 5, on corolla tube, alternate lobes; ovary superior, generally 2-chambered, style 1.
Fruit: berry, loculicidal or septicidal capsule, [( drupe)], 2–5-chambered.
75 genera, 3000 species: worldwide, especially ± tropics; many alien weeds in CA; many cultivated for food, drugs, or ornamental (potato, tomato, peppers, tobacco, petunia); many TOXIC. [Hunziker 2001 Genera Solanacearum. Koeltz Scientific Books] Nicandra physalodes (L.) Gaertn. is a waif. —Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Unabridged references: [Hunziker 2001 Genera Solanacearum: The Genera of Solanaceae Illustrated, Arranged According to a New System by A.T. Hunziker. Koeltz Scientific Books, Königstein, Germany]
Annual from taproot or perennial herb from rhizome; hairs branched or not, glandular or not.Key to Physalis
Leaf: ± opposite or not, entire to pinnate-lobed.
Inflorescence: flowers 1–few per axil, pedicelled.
Flower: generally nodding; calyx 5-lobed, enlarged and persistent, bladder-like in fruit; corolla ± rotate to shallowly bell-shaped, generally ± yellow, often dark-spotted adaxially; stamens 5, attached to hairy band in tube, anthers free, generally < filaments, opening by slits; style generally straight.
Fruit: berry, fleshy [dry].
Seed: many, 2–2.5 mm, ± spheric to reniform.
± 85 species: Am, Eurasia, Africa, Australia. (Greek: bladder, from calyx in fruit) Unripe fruit often TOXIC. Needs study in w US. Some species cultivated for edible or ornamental fruit.
Unabridged references: [Sullivan 1985 Syst Bot 10:426–444]
Perennial 1–8 dm, rhizome fleshy.
Leaf: 2–4 cm, ovate, entire to coarsely toothed, generally gray-green; base tapered or ± cordate.
Inflorescence: pedicel 3–5(10) mm, in fruit < 15 mm.
Flower: calyx 6–7 mm, in fruit 20–30 mm, ± spheric, with 10 green veins; corolla 10–15 mm, widely bell-shaped, yellow, with 5 purple-brown spots at base adaxially or not; anthers yellow. [Online Interchange]
Hairs generally branched, nonglandular.
n=12. Gravelly to rocky slopes; 900–1800 m. s East of Sierra Nevada (including Inyo Mtns), Mojave Desert;
Previous taxon: Physalis hederifolia
Next taxon: Physalis hederifolia var. palmeri
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) [year] Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/IJM.html [accessed on month, day, year]
Citation for an individual treatment: [Author of taxon treatment] [year]. [Taxon name] in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, [URL for treatment]. Accessed on [month, day, year].
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