7401.000 Physalis L.

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.

Mozambique: 5 taxa.

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
angulata L.Z,T,GI,MDescription, Image
lagascae Roem. & Schult.Z,T,MS
peruviana L.N,T,MS,MDescription, Image
pubescens L.M
viscosa L.MS

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Flora of Botswana: Physalis
Flora of Caprivi: Physalis
Flora of Malawi: Physalis
Flora of Zambia: Physalis
Flora of Zimbabwe: Physalis
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Physalis

External websites:

ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Physalis
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Physalis
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Physalis
Wikipedia: Physalis
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Physalis
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Physalis

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-23

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2023). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Physalis.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1247, retrieved 22 March 2023

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