Acnistus arborescens

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Common Names

Description

Family Solanaceae

Herbs, shrubs , small trees , or climbers . Stems sometimes prickly, rarely thorny; hairs simple , branched, or stellate , sometimes glandular . Leaves alternate, solitary or paired , simple or pinnately compound , without stipules; leaf blade entire, dentate , lobed , or divided . Inflorescences terminal , overtopped by continuing axes, appearing axillary , extra-axillary , or leaf opposed, often apparently umbellate , racemose, paniculate , clustered, or solitary flowers, rarely true cymes, sometimes bracteate . Flowers mostly bisexual , usually regular, 5-merous, rarely 4- or 6-9-merous. Calyx mostly lobed. Petals united . Stamens as many as corolla lobes and alternate with them, inserted within corolla, all alike or 1 or more reduced; anthers dehiscing longitudinally or by apical pores . Ovary 2-5-locular; placentation mostly axile ; ovules usually numerous . Style 1. Fruiting calyx often becoming enlarged, mostly persistent . Fruit a berry or capsule. Seeds with copious endosperm; embryo mostly curved .

About 95 genera with 2300 species: best represented in western tropical America, widespread in temperate and tropical regions ; 20 genera (ten introduced ) and 101 species in China.

Some species of Solanaceae are known in China only by plants cultivated in ornamental or specialty gardens: Atropa belladonna Linnaeus, Cyphomandra betacea (Cavanilles) Sendtner, Brugmansia suaveolens (Willdenow) Berchtold & Presl, Nicotiana alata Link & Otto, and Solanum jasminoides Paxton.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,653 meters (0 to 15,266 feet).[2]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 8-10' apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Acnida tamariscina auct. non (Nutt.) Wood
2. Amaranthus tamariscinus auct. non Nutt.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000.

Place of publication : Linnaea 7:67. 1832.

Name verified on 21-Sep-1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-May-1997.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Acnistus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 65 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

A. achalensis · A. aggregatus · A. arborescens (Hollowheart) · A. australis (Mini Angels Trumpet) · A. australis var. grandiflorus · A. benthami · A. bornmuelleri · A. bornmulleri · A. breviflorus · A. breviflorus pubescens · A. breviflorus tomentosus · A. breviflorus var. glabratus · A. campanulatus · A. cauliflorus · A. cerasus · A. cestroides · A. coccoloboides · A. confertiflorus · A. cornifolius · A. dolichostylus · A. ellipticus · A. fasciculatus · A. ferruginea · A. ferrugineus · A. floccosus · A. floribundus · A. frutescens · A. galanderi · A. geminifolius · A. gesnerioides · A. glabratus · A. grandiflorus · A. guayaquilensis · A. hauthalii · A. horridus · A. insularis · A. isularis · A. lehmanni · A. lehmannii · A. lindenianus · A. lorentzii · A. lorenztii · A. loxensis · A. lycioides · A. macrophyllus · A. miersi · A. mollis · A. multiflorus · A. oblongifolius · A. parviflorus · A. plumieri · A. pringlei · A. punctatus · A. quitensis · A. quitoensis · A. ramiflorus · A. schunckii · A. sellowi · A. sideroxyloides · A. spatulatus · A. spinescens · A. spinosus · A. ulei · A. umbellatus · A. virgatus

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Further Reading

• A montane rain-forest; a contribution to the physiological plant geography of Jamaica, by Forrest Shreve. Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1914. ENG url p. 21, p. 32.
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam) [= Dunalia arborescens (L.) Sleumer].
• Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, ENG url p. 299.
• Annales des sciences naturelles. Paris: Fortin, Masson, 1834-1937. FRE url p. 120, p. 51.
• Botanisches Zentralblatt; referierendes Organ für das Gesamtgebiet der Botanik. Jena [etc.]G. Fischer [etc.] GER url p. 34, p. 4, p. 87.
• Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1902- ENG url p. 24, p. 32, p. 51.
• Ensayo sobre las plantas usuales de Costa Rica / por H. Pittier. Washington, D.C.: H.L. & J.B. McQueen, 1908. SPA url p. 101.
• Enumeration mthodique des champignons recueillis la Guadeloupe & la Martinique, par le R.-P. Duss. Lons-le-Saunier, Impr. et lithographie L. Duclume, 1903. FRE url p. 25, p. 28, p. 87.
• Flora of Costa Rica by Paul C. Standley Chicago, 1937. ENG url p. 1036.
• Flora of Guatemala / Johnnie L. Gentry, Paul C. Standley. Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1974. ENG url p. 4, p. 5.
• Flora of Peru / by J. Francis Macbride. Chicago, [Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, [1962] ENG url p. 44.
• Flora voor de Nederlandsch West-Indische eilanden, door I. Boldingh Amsterdam, Druk. van J. H. de Bussy, 1913. DUT url p. 353, p. 425, p. 60.
• Hunziker in Hawkes et al. 1979. Biol. and Tax. of the Solanaceae. 56.
• Just's botanischer jahresbericht. Systematisch geordnetes repertorium der botanischen literatur aller länder. Berlin, Gebr. Borntraeger, 1874-98; GER url p. 425, p. 426, p. 57.
• L. d'A. Freire de Varvalho. 1997. Diversidade taxônomica das Solanáceas no estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) - I. Albertoa 4:248.
• Manual de plantas de Costa Rica /B.E. Hammel [et al.] editores; Silvia Troyo, ilustraciones. 97 2004 St. Louis, Mo.: Missouri Botanical Garden, 2003- SPA url p. 163, p. 165, p. 166, p. 170.
• Plantae diaphoricae florae Argentinae, ó, Revista sistemática de las plantas medicinales, alimenticias ó de alguna otra utilidad y de las venenosas, que son indígenas de la República Argentina ó que, por J. Hieronymus. Buenos Aires: Litografia, Imprenta y Encuadernación de Guillermo Kraft, 1882. SPA url p. 533.
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965 –. Flora ilustrada catarinense. (F SCatarin)
• Repertorium botanices systematicae. Auctore Guilielmo Gerardo Walpers Lipsiae, Sumtibus Friderici Hofmeister, 1842-48. LAT url p. 103, p. 112, p. 122.
• Scientific survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands / New York Academy of Sciences. New York, N.Y.: The Academy, 1919- url p. 163, p. 183, p. 30, p. 561.
• Spermatophytes, mostly Peruvian. by J. Francis Macbride. Chicago Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1930. ENG url p. 107.
• Standley, P. C. and J. A. Steyermark. 1946 –1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
• Sylloge fungorum omnium hucusque cognitorum. Digessit P. A. Saccardo. Patavii, sumptibus auctoris, 1882-1931. LAT url p. 37.
• Woodson, R. E. and R. W. Schery, eds. 1943 –1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama) [mentions].
• Kuang Ko-zen & Lu An-ming, eds. 1978. Solanaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(1): 1-175.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 11, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 11 providers.
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 24, 2008)

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 11, 2007:

• Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium Darwin Core format
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2653691
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-30634
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13745128
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:814189-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 312509
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 30634
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 814189-1
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ACAR
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 12459

Footnotes

1. Zhi-Yun Zhang, Anmin Lu & William G. D'Arcy "Solanaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 300. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 1,152.160 meters (3,780.052 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,245.410 based on 384 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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