Solanum inaequilaterum—Brush Nightshade—SOLANACEAE
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Habitat—Grows in disturbed sites and rainforest margins and regrowth. Distribution— North from Dorrigo National Park in New South Wales and into Queensland. Description—Shrub to 2 m high. Local occurrences— Dorrigo National Park and Junuy Juluum National Park
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Leaves.—Alternate, lobed with prickles dense on main stems, scattered to abundant on leaves and peduncle, absent from pedicel and calyx, young leaves often purplish; simple and glandular hairs also on pedicel and calyx; prickles dense on main stems, scattered to abundant on leaves and peduncle, absent from pedicel and calyx. Leaves elliptic, 4 to 15 cm long, 2 to 5 cm wide, margins entire to shallowly lobed; both surfaces green, sparsely stellate–hairy or rarely lower surface densely hairy; petiole 1 to 3 cm long. Juvenile leaves to 20 cm long and to 15 cm wide, deeply lobed; petiole to 5 cm long. |
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Inflorescence.—Often congested, 1 to 10–flowered; peduncle 10 to 15 mm long; pedicels 5 to 10 mm long. Calyx 8 to 10 mm long; lobes 5 to 8 mm long. Corolla broad–stellate, 25 to 35 mm diam., blue. Fruiting peduncle to 25 mm long, thickened in upper half. Flowering.—Spring to Summer |
Fruit.—Berry 10 to 20 mm diam., scarlet. Ripe.—Summer to Autumn. |
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