LYCOPERSICON Mill.
Bikandu, B., Lukoki, F., Habari, J.P., Ntore, S. & Sosef, M.S.M. (2020) Solanaceae Flore d'Afrique Centrale Nouvelle Serie Jardin Botanique Meise, Belgique
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 DRC: 11 cultivated taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species |
| Species | Content |
| aethiopicum L. | Description |
| betaceum Cav. | Description, Image |
| lycopersicum L. | Description, Image |
| macrocarpon L. | Description, Image |
| mammosum L. | |
| melongena L. | |
| pseudocapsicum L. | Description |
| seaforthianum Andr. | Description, Image |
| tuberosum L. | Description |
| wendlandii Hook. f. | Description |
| wrightii Benth. |