Unknown #48
Unknown # 48

View of leaves and 2 inflorescences (flower clusters)

Close-up view of an individual flower.

Close-up view of a developing fruit.

Key Traits Necessary To Identify This Species:

fl = flower   fr = fruit   pl = plant   lf = leaf   gen = generally   see JM p. 27

  1. Flowers in 5's (5 sepals & 5 petals).
  2. Pistil 1 per flower.
  3. Perianth of sepals & petals.
  4. Petals free, attached to rim of cup-shaped hypanthium.
  5. Ovary inferior (or partly so).
  6. Stamens equal to the number of petals (5).
  7. Stamens alternate with petals.
  8. Style 1.
  9. Plants without tendrils.
  10. Ovules many per chamber.
  11. Placentation parietal (ovary not compartmented).
  12. Flowers in racemes.
  13. Nodal spines 0, not a gooseberry.
  14. Hypanthium tubular.
  15. Sepals white (resembling small petals).
  16. Anther tip rounded and blunt (without cup-like depression).
  17. Style hairy at base (glandular pubescent).
  18. Hypanthium white (resembling tubular corolla).
  19. Hypanthium less than 2 times longer than wide.

A red-flowered species with nodal spines.
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