Flora of North America species comparison

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Phytolacca icosandra

tropical pokeweed
Habit Plants to 3 m.
Leaves

petiole 0.5–6 cm;

blade elliptic to obovate or rarely lanceolate, to 30 × 15 cm, base obtuse to attenuate, apex acute.
Inflorescences

spikes or spikelike, surpassing subtending leaves, to 30 cm;

peduncle to 10 cm;

pedicel 0.5–2 mm.
Flowers

sepals 5, white or pink to pale reddish, broadly elliptic, equal, to 3 × 2 mm;

stamens (8–)10–22(–30), usually in 2 whorls;

carpels mostly 6–10, connate;

ovary 6–10-loculed.
Berries

purple-black, 7–8 mm diam.
Seeds

black, thickly lenticular, 2.5–3 mm, shiny.

Phytolacca icosandra
Phenology Flowering summer–winter.
Habitat Disturbed areas, chrome ore piles
Elevation 10-1800 m (0-5900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; MD; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion

Some authors (e.g., J. I. Davis 1985) include Phytolacca octandra in the synonymy of P. icosandra.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 4, p. 9.
Parent taxa Phytolaccaceae > Phytolacca
Sibling taxa
P. acinosa, P. americana, P. bogotensis, P. heterotepala, P. octandra
Name authority Linnaeus: Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 2: 1040. (1759)
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