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LYCOPERSICON Mill.
Herbs, shrubs, climbers or trees, unarmed or spiny, often stellate-hairy. Stipules 0, but Solanum mauritianum has prominent pseudostipules. Leaves alternate, entire, lobed to pinnatisect or pinnate. Inflorescences often extra-axillary, mostly racemose or umbellate cymes or terminal panicles. Calyx (4-)5-10-toothed or lobed, not or only slightly enlarging in fruit. Corolla often rotate, (4-)5(-6)-lobed, white, yellow, blue or purple. Filaments shorter than anthers; anthers often connivent, dehiscing by apical pores, Ovary 2(-4)-locular. Fruit a ± spherical berry. Derivation of name: Ex Latin; solamen, quieting, alluding to the sedative properties Worldwide: 1700 species, more or less cosmopolitan, especially in warm countries Caprivi: 16 cultivated taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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Species | Content |
aculeatissimum Jacq. | Description, Image |
americanum Mill. | Image |
anguivi Lam. | Description, Image |
campylacanthum Hochst. ex A.Rich. | |
capsicoides L. | |
cyaneopurpureum De Wild. | |
giganteum Jacq. | Description, Image |
mammosum L. | |
memphiticum J.F.Gmel. | |
nigrum L. | Image |
scabrum Mill. | |
tarderemotum Bitter | |
terminale Forssk. | Description, Image |
torvum Sw. | Description, Image |
villosum Mill. | |
wendlandii Hook. f. | Description |
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