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.

Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa.

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Species	Content
peruviana L.	Description, Image
philadelphica Lam.	Description, Image

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Flora of Botswana: Physalis
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Flora of Mozambique: Physalis
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Physalis
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iNaturalist: Physalis
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Physalis
JSTOR Plant Science: Physalis
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Physalis
Plants of the World Online: Physalis
Tropicos: Physalis
Wikipedia: Physalis