Common name: Perennial Ground Cherry
Physalis longifolia Nutt. APNI* Synonyms: Physalis virginiana Mill. APNI*
Description: Rhizomatous perennial to 50 cm high, glabrescent or sparsely hairy with minute simple hairs.
Leaves 1 or 2 per node, elliptic, usually to 6 cm long and 2 cm wide (to 3.5 cm), margins entire or slightly toothed or lobed, base cuneate; petiole to 3 cm long.
Pedicels 8–15 mm long. Calyx usually 8–10 mm long; lobes narrow-triangular, 5–6 mm long. Corolla rotate, 10–12 mm long, greenish yellow, with dark spots between anthers. Anthers 2.5–4 mm long. Style 6–8 mm long.
Fruiting calyx 10-angled, 15–25 mm long, pale green. Berry c. 10 mm diam.
Flowering: chiefly in summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Weed of cultivated areas, west to Molong-Wellington district. Native of N Amer.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SC, *NT, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *NWP
Specimens of this species were formerly referred to P. virginiana
Text by B. J. Conn. Updated by Peter G. Wilson, October 2009.
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992); name change follows Bean (2006) Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter No. 127.
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