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Taxonomy

Physical 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]

Similar Species

Members of the genus Fabiana:

There are approximately 41 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus: F. araucana · F. barriosi · F. biflora · F. bryoides · F. capitata · F. clarenii · F. cordifolia · F. densa · F. densa var. ramulosa · F. denudata · F. deserticola · F. ericoides · F. fiebrigii · F. foliosa · F. friebrigii · F. friesii · F. glandulosa · F. hieronymi · F. imbrica · F. imbricata (False Heath) · F. imbricata 'Alba' (False Heath) · F. imbricata 'Prostrata' · F. imbricata 'Violacea' (False Heath) · F. imbricata f. violacea · F. imbricata f. violacea dark-flowered · F. indica · F. kurtziana · F. lanuginosa · F. lutescens · F. nana · F. patagonica · F. peckii · F. petunioides · F. petunoides · F. punensis · F. ramulosa · F. squamata · F. stephanii · F. thymifolia · F. violacea · F. viscosa

Members of the genus Picea:

There are approximately 607 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: P. mariana · P. abies (Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Archer' · P. abies 'Argentea' · P. abies 'Argenteospica' · P. abies 'Argenteospicata' (White-Tip Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Aurea Magnifica' · P. abies 'Aurea' · P. abies 'Capitata' · P. abies 'Ceejay's Gem' · P. abies 'Cinderella' · P. abies 'Clanbrassiliana Stricta' (Dwarf Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Clanbrassiliana' (Dwarf Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Compacta Asselyn' (Dwarf Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Congesta' · P. abies 'Conica' · P. abies 'Cranstonii' · P. abies 'Crippsii' · P. abies 'Cruenta' · P. abies 'Cupressina' (Cupressina Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Cuspidata' (Norway Spruce Cultivar) · P. abies 'Decumbens' · P. abies 'Diffusa' · P. abies 'Dumosa' · P. abies 'Dumpy' (Dwarf Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Echiniformis' (Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Elegans' · P. abies 'Elegantissima' (Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Ellwangeriana' · P. abies 'Excelsa' · P. abies 'Fahndrich' · P. abies 'Finedonensis' · P. abies 'Formanek' · P. abies 'Four Winds' · P. abies 'Fritsche' (Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Frohburg Prostrata' · P. abies 'Frohburg' (Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Globosa Nana' · P. abies 'Globosa' · P. abies 'Goblin' (Dwarf Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Goldstart' · P. abies 'Gregoryana' (Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Hasin' (Dwarf Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Heartland Gem' · P. abies 'Hillside Upright' (Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Himfa' · P. abies 'Horace Wilson' (Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Humilis' (Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Humphrey's Gem' (Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Hystrix' · P. abies 'J.W. Daisy's White' · P. abies 'Jana' · P. abies 'Kámon' · P. abies 'Kral' · P. abies 'Little Gem' (Little Gem Dwarf Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Mariae Orffiae' · P. abies 'Mariae Orffii' · P. abies 'Maxwellii' (Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Merkii' · P. abies 'Middle Road' (Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Mikulasovice' · P. abies 'Monstrosa' · P. abies 'Mucronata' (Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Nana Compacta' · P. abies 'Nana' · P. abies 'Nidiformis' (Bird's Nest Spruce) · P. abies 'Norrkoping' · P. abies 'Ohlendorffii' · P. abies 'Pachyphylla' · P. abies 'Parsonsii' · P. abies 'Parviformis' · P. abies 'Pendula Aa Form' (Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Pendula Major' · P. abies 'Phylicoides' · P. abies 'Procumbens' · P. abies 'Pseudomaxwellii' · P. abies 'Pseudoprostrata' · P. abies 'Pumila Glauca' · P. abies 'Pumila Nigra' · P. abies 'Pumila' (Dwarf Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Pusch' · P. abies 'Pygmaea' (Dwarf Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Rariflora Weeper' (Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Reflexa' (Weeping Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Remontii' · P. abies 'Repens' (Creeping Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Rubra Spicata' · P. abies 'Rubra' · P. abies 'Rydal' · P. abies 'Saint James' (Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Saint Mary's Broom' · P. abies 'Sherwoodii' (Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Stary Smolivec' · P. abies 'Tabuliformis' · P. abies 'Tufty' · P. abies 'Veitchii' · P. abies 'Vermont Gold' (Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Wagner' (Norway Spruce) · P. abies 'Walter Bron' · P. abies 'Waugh'

Bibliography

• Kuang Ko-zen & Lu An-ming, eds. 1978. Solanaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(1): 1-175.

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Notes

Identifiers:

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16419146
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2257061

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.