Botanical description of Solanum americanum

Botanical description of Solanum americanum

Habit: A small annual herb

Root: Branched tap root system.

Stem: Aerial, erect, green and herbaceous

Leaf: Simple, alternate but opposite in the floral region, petiolate, exstipulate ovate, entire or slightly lobed, acute unicostate reticulate venation.

Inflorescence: Extra-axillary (due to fusion of floral axis) scorpioid cyme called rhiphidium

Flower: Ebracteate, pedicellate, white, bisexual, actinomorphic, heterochlamydeous, pentamerous, hypogynous white.

Calyx: Sepals 5, synsepalous, green, persistent and showing valvate aestivation.

Corolla: petals 5, sympetalous, white, showing valvate aestivation.

Androecium: Stamens 5, apostamenous, epipetalous, filaments short, anthers conniving and forming an envelope around the style dithecous, basifixed with apical pores.

Gynoecium: Bicarpellary, syncarpous, superior, bilocular, many ovules in each locule on axile placentation, septum oblique, highly swollen placenta, style long and hairy at the base, stigma bifid.

Fruit: Berry

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