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Common names: | Potato vine (English) |
Description: | Climber or climbing shrub to 7 m, with scattered hooked short prickles. Leaves pinnately 3-5-lobed. Cymes terminal, many-flowered. Corolla pale blue to mauve, 3-5 cm in diameter, pentagonal-rotate. |
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Derivation of specific name: | wendlandii: for Johann Christoph Wendland, 1755-1828, German gardener and botanist. |
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Worldwide distribution: | Central and South America. |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Literature: |
Gonçalves, A.E. (2005). Solanaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(4) Page 71. |
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