Latua pubiflora

Latua pubiflora (syn. Latua Venenosa Phil.), also called the sorcerer's tree, a species of the nightshade family (Solanaceae). It is the only species of the genus Latua. It is endemic in the coastal mountains of southern Chile.

Latua pubiflora grow as 20-10 meters height attained shrubs or small trees with one or more main stems that can reach a diameter of 3-25 cm. The plant is equipped with rigid, up to 2 cm long spines occupied, which are in the leaf axils. The leaves are on petioles 2 mm long, the leaf blades are hairy, 3-12 cm long and 1.5 to 4 cm long, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, the tip is sharpened long, the leaf base is tapered to. Stomata only on the underside of irregular distribution found.

The flowers are individually to 50-20 mm long, felted flower stalks. These arise from the axils of the spines of a shell from the overlapping scales. The five fold, bell-shaped cup is about 80-10 mm long. The sepals are gleichgeformt, triangular, slightly pointed. The magenta-colored to red, urn-shaped crown has a length of 3-4 cm and a mean diameter of 1.5 cm. The outside is covered with dense hair. The Corolla lobe is relatively short, as wide as long or slightly wider. The stamens are about 8 mm from the base crown with fused petals. They are slightly beyond the corolla-tube at the lower end they are hairy. The dust bag is about 2 mm long and fused at the base with the filaments. The counters are at the outer end of separate, this separation reaches about one third of its total length. The pollen is three-to fourfold, flattened globose to spherical, and with 20-21 microns relatively small. The two carpels are two-chamber, is the large ovules are anatrop (opposite) are arranged. The style is as long as the longest stamen. They are trained circular nectaries. The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds.

The fruits are yellow to orange-yellow, fleshy berries with a diameter of about 2 cm, on the fruit cup is extended to a length of 11-16 mm, the sepals are available from the outside. The seeds are dark brown to black and about 2 mm large, relatively thick, slightly longer than wide. Inside, a curved embryo, the cotyledons are shorter than the rest of the embryo. The endosperm is formed abundantly.

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