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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 Jaborosa:

There are approximately 42 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus: J. ameghinoi · J. andina · J. araucana · J. bergii · J. bipinnatida · J. bipinnatifida · J. bonariensis · J. cabrerae · J. caulescens · J. chubutensis · J. crispa · J. decurrens · J. desiderata · J. floccosa · J. flocosa · J. integrifolia (Springblossom) · J. integrifolia var. brasiliensis · J. intergrifolia · J. kurtzii · J. laciniata · J. lanigera · J. leiocalyx · J. leptophylla · J. leucotricha · J. longiflora · J. magellanica · J. montevidensis · J. odonelliana · J. oxipetala · J. parviflora · J. pinnata · J. reflexa · J. riojana · J. rotacea · J. rotacea var. tucumanensis · J. runcinata · J. sativa · J. sinuata · J. squarrosa · J. tridentata · J. volkmanni · J. volkmannii

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: 15861953
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:933551-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3701106

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.