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|accepted_name=Physalis acutifolia
|accepted_authority=(Miers) Sandwith
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Kew Bull.
|place=14: 232. 1960
|year=1960
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Saracha acutifolia
|authority=Miers
|rank=species
|publication_title=Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser.
|publication_place=2, 3: 449.  1849
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Physalis wrightii
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Solanaceae;Physalis;Physalis acutifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Solanaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Physalis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Physalis acutifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>annual, taprooted, sparsely pubescent to ± glabrous, hairs simple, appressed, antrorse, to 0.5 mm. <b>Stems</b> erect to decumbent, branching at most nodes, branches spreading and sometimes decumbent, 1–5 dm. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate; petiole mostly 1/2–2/3 blade; blade narrowly elliptic-ovate to lanceolate, (1.5–)2.5–6.8(–8.3) × (0.7–)1–2.5(–5.4) cm, base attenuate to rounded, margins coarsely, deeply, irregularly dentate, teeth acuminate. <b>Pedicels</b> (13–)20–34(–40) mm, (20–)25–35(–39) mm in fruit. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx (3–)4–5(–6) mm, lobes (1–)2–4 mm, (acute to acuminate); corolla pale yellow to nearly white with green or darker yellow tinge, rotate, 5–15 mm; anthers usually blue-tinged, rarely all blue or yellow, not twisted after dehiscence, 1–3 mm. <b>Fruiting</b> calyces nearly filled by berry, 10-ribbed, 15–25(–30) × 13–20(–22) mm. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (May–)Jul–Nov.
|habitat=Disturbed areas along streams and roadsides, gravel and sand, cultivated fields, parks.
|elevation=100–2000 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ariz.;Calif.;Ga.;Miss.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Baja California;Baja California Sur;Chihuahua;Sinaloa;Sonora).
|discussion=<p>Corollas of Physalis acutifolia are nearly rotate with a very short floral tube and somewhat reflexed, widely flaring limb when fully open. Unless it is in flower, P. acutifolia is difficult to distinguish from narrow-leaved P. angulata, which has corollas that are more campanulate-rotate, without a reflexed limb.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Physalis acutifolia
|authority=(Miers) Sandwith
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Physalis wrightii
|basionyms=Saracha acutifolia
|family=Solanaceae
|phenology=Flowering (May–)Jul–Nov.
|habitat=Disturbed areas along streams and roadsides, gravel and sand, cultivated fields, parks.
|elevation=100–2000 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ariz.;Calif.;Ga.;Miss.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Baja California;Baja California Sur;Chihuahua;Sinaloa;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Kew Bull.
|publication year=1960
|special status=Weedy
|source xml=
|genus=Physalis
|species=Physalis acutifolia
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