Taxon: Physalis viscosa L.

• the 5 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

CA*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• grape ground-cherry   (Source: Invaders Database ) – English
  
• perennial ground-cherry   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• stellate ground-cherry   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• sticky Cape-gooseberry   (Source: Econ Pl Aust ) – English
  
• sticky ground-cherry   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• sticky physalis   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• sticky-gooseberry   (Source: F Zamb ) – English
  
• prairie ground-cherry   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English (Australia)
  
• arrebenta-cavalo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• balãozinho   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• bucho-de-rã   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• camambú   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Bolivia - Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Tarija
  Southern South America: Argentina - Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chaco, Cordoba, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Jujuy, La Pampa, Mendoza, Salta, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, Tucuman; Paraguay - Alto Parana, Boqueron, Central, Cordillera, Paraguari, Presidente Hayes

• naturalized elsewhere

• perhaps native elsewhere in South America

References:

• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds. 1978–. Flora de Veracruz. [mentions].
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980-
• Missouri Botanical Garden. W³Tropicos (on-line resource).
• Navas-Bustamante, L. E. 1973–1979. Flora de la cuenca de Santiago de Chile.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Sullivan, J. R. 1985. Systematics of the Physalis viscosa complex (Solanaceae). Syst. Bot. 10:426–444.
• USDA/ARS. INVADERS database system. The University of Montana (on-line resource).
• Waterfall, U. T. 1967. Physalis in Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. Rhodora 69:102.
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Physalis viscosa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Physalis viscosa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Physalis viscosa.

Synonyms:

• (=) Physalis curassavica L.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Physalis fuscomaculata Dunal
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Physalis viscosa L.:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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