Solanum cardiophyllum

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassMagnoliopsida
4. OrderSolanales
5. FamilySolanaceae

Native toCuba, Haiti

Woody vining shrub or liana. Stems flexuous, glabrous; new growth minutely pubescent, the trichomes ca. 0.4 mm, simple, uniseriate, later glabrous. Bark of older stems dark reddish brown. Sympodial units plurifoliate. Leaves simple or occasionally very shallowly 3-lobed, 4.5–7 cm long, 3–5 cm wide, ovate to cordate or narrowly cordate, glabrous on both surfaces or with a few minute uniseriate simple trichomes along the midrib above; primary veins 5–7 pairs, drying reddish; base cordate or truncate and oblique; margins entire; apex acuminate; petioles 2.3–3.5 cm long, glabrous, twisting to aid in climbing up supports. Inflorescences leaf-opposed or terminal, 10–30 cm long, ovoid to ellipsoid in overall shape, branching to 5 times, with 50–100 flowers, glabrous; peduncle 1.5–9 cm long, glabrous; pedicels slender, 1.2–1.7 cm long, ca. 0.5 mm in diameter at the base, ca. 1 mm in diameter at the apex, nodding, glabrous, articulated in distal quarter just below the calyx tube leaving an elongate peg, occasionally articulated in the basal half of the pedicel, but always leaving a distinct remnant; pedicel scars widely spaced ca. 1 cm apart, appearing as a series of elongate pegs due to ar

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