Phytolacca icosandra
Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 2: 1040. 1759.
Common names: Tropical pokeweed
Plants to 3 m. Leaves: petiole 0.5–6 cm; blade elliptic to obovate or rarely lanceolate, to 30 × 15 cm, base obtuse to attenuate, apex acute. Inflorescences spikes or spikelike, surpassing subtending leaves, to 30 cm; peduncle to 10 cm; pedicel 0.5–2 mm. Flowers: sepals 5, white or pink to pale reddish, broadly elliptic, equal, to 3 × 2 mm; stamens (8–) 10–22 (–30), usually in 2 whorls; carpels mostly 6–10, connate; ovary 6–10-loculed. Berries purple-black, 7–8 mm diam. Seeds black, thickly lenticular, 2.5–3 mm, shiny.
Phenology: Flowering summer–winter.
Habitat: Disturbed areas, chrome ore piles
Elevation: 10-1800 m
Distribution
Introduced; Ariz., Calif., Md., Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America
Discussion
Some authors (e.g., J. I. Davis 1985) include Phytolacca octandra in the synonymy of P. icosandra.
Selected References
Lower Taxa
None.
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lenticular +
acute +
obtuse;attenuate +
purple-black +
oblate +
veined +
elliptic;obovate or rarely lanceolate +
connate +
Tropical pokeweed +
compound +
curved +
symmetric +
connate +
hypogynous +
1-12[-18]-carpellate +
5-100-flowered +
surpassing +
spikelike +
true +
alternate +
undulate +
6-10-loculed +
1-12[-18]-locular +
basal +
superior +
absent +
absent +
Syst. Nat. ed. +
1759 +
black +
shiny +
lenticular +
imbricate +
elliptic +
pink;pale reddish +
persistent +
? (?) +
unequal +
equal +
10;22 +
absent +
minute +
persisting +
distinct +
Phytolacca icosandra +
Phytolacca +
species +
perennial +