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]
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,653 meters (0 to 15,266 feet).[2]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Lamiidae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Superorder:
Solananae
()
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Solanales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Solanaceae
()
- Adans., 1763, Nom. Cons.
- Potato Family
- Genus:
Witheringia
()
- Specific epithet:
solanacea
- L'Her.
- Botanical name: - Witheringia solanacea L'Her.
- Specific epithet:
solanacea
- L'Her.
- Genus:
Witheringia
(
- Family:
Solanaceae
(
- Order:
Solanales
(
- Superorder:
Solananae
(
- Subclass:
Lamiidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Witheringia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 103 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
W. acuminata · W. acutifolia · W. affinis · W. alata · W. allogona · W. angustifolia · W. anonacea · W. aspera · W. asterotricha · W. auriculata · W. berteroana · W. biflora · W. bristaniana · W. capsicoides · W. chenopodioides · W. ciliata · W. coccoloboides · W. conica · W. conspersa · W. contorta · W. correae · W. correana · W. crassifolia · W. crispa · W. cuneata · W. dentata · W. dichotoma · W. diffusa · W. diploccnos · W. diploconos · W. divaricata · W. diversifolia · W. dumetorum · W. exiguiflora · W. filipes · W. flexuosa · W. folliculoides · W. fournieri · W. furcata · W. fuscoviolacea · W. gaudichaudiana · W. gayana · W. glabrata · W. glandulosa · W. hirsuta · W. hunzikeri · W. jaltomata · W. killipiana · W. lanceolata · W. laxa · W. laxissima · W. lindenii · W. macrantha · W. macrophylla · W. maculata · W. maritima · W. martiana · W. maxonii · W. meiantha · W. menziesii · W. mexicana · W. micrantha · W. microphylla · W. mollis · W. montana · W. morii · W. mortonii · W. multifida · W. nelsonii · W. pendula · W. physocalycia · W. physocalycina · W. picta · W. pinnata · W. pinnatifida · W. pogogena · W. pogonandra · W. pohliana · W. procumbens · W. propinqua · W. purpurea · W. rhomboidea · W. riparia · W. rubra · W. ruderalis · W. salicifolia · W. schottiana · W. selloviana · W. solanacea · W. solanaceae · W. solanacea var. silvigaudens · W. stellata · W. stramonifolia · W. stramoniifolia · W. synanthera · W. tomatillo · W. tomentosa · W. umbellata · W. vestita · W. villosa
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Further Reading
- Annales botanices systematicae. Auctore Guilielmo Gerardo Walpers. Lipsiae, Sumtibus F. Hofmeister, 1848-68. LAT url p. 157.
Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 01, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 12 providers.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 01, 2007:
- Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
- Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
- Herbier de la Guyane, Herbier de la Guyane
- Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
- , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
- University of Vienna, Institute for Botany - Herbarium WU, Herbarium WU
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3440942
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15867564
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:821802-1
- MoBot NameID: 29602047
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1111536
Footnotes
- 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]
- Mean = 642.370 meters (2,107.513 feet), Standard Deviation = 813.220 based on 980 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
