Phytolacca bogotensis
Phytolacca acinosa
southern pokeweed
Indian pokeweed
dense, proximalmost pedicels sometimes bearing 2–few flowers, to 20 cm;
peduncle to 5(–8) cm;
pedicel 2–4 mm.
dense, erect at least in flower and young fruit, 5–30 cm;
peduncle to 5 cm;
pedicel 6–13 mm, sometimes obscure.
sepals 5, white to red, oblong to ovate, subequal, 2–3 × 1.2–2 mm;
stamens 7–12, in 1 whorl (rarely, partial 2d whorl present);
carpels 7–10, fully connate or sometimes connate only in proximal 1/2;
ovary 7–10-loculed.
sepals 5, white or greenish white, elliptic to oblong, equal to subequal, 3–4 mm;
stamens 7–10, in 1 whorl;
carpels 7–8, distinct.
green-brown becoming dark brown, 5–8 mm diam.
black, 4 mm, smooth to somewhat rugose;
pericarp firmly adherent to seed.
black, thickly lenticular, 2.5–3.3 mm, shiny.
= 36.
Phytolacca bogotensis
Phytolacca acinosa
The only collections of Phytolacca acinosa we have seen from the flora are those made by Hugh H. Iltis and others at Olin Park in Madison, Wisconsin (WISC; three collections, the earliest 1971, the latest 1986, photographs 1996). The plants were reported to be scattered to abundant, with many seedlings or young plants of all sizes, and were found in deep shade in a deciduous forest where the species had persisted for about 25 years.
J. W. Nowicke (1968) referred to the one-seeded fruits of Phytolacca acinosa as drupelets.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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