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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]

Distribution

Similar Species

Members of the genus Waddingtonia:

There are approximately 2 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus: W. coquimbana · W. floribunda

Members of the genus Buettneria:

There are approximately 87 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus: B. abutiloides · B. acuminata · B. amazonica · B. angulata · B. asperrima · B. bauhinioides · B. beccarii · B. beyrichiana · B. biloba · B. boliviana · B. brasiliensis · B. carthagenensis · B. catalpaefolia · B. celebica · B. celtoides · B. charagmocarpa · B. corchorifolia · B. cordifolia · B. corylifolia · B. curtisii · B. dasyphylla · B. dentata · B. ekmanii · B. elliptica · B. erosa · B. filipes · B. flexuosa · B. fruticosa · B. fulva · B. gayana · B. geminifolia · B. genistella · B. glabra · B. grandidieri · B. grandifolia · B. guatemalensis · B. hermanniaefolia · B. hirsuta · B. hypoleuca · B. integrifolia · B. jaculifolia · B. javanica · B. laevigata · B. lanceolata · B. lancifolia · B. leesoni · B. lobata · B. longicuspis · B. longifolia · B. macrophylla · B. martiana · B. melastomaefolia · B. melastomoides · B. melleri · B. muricata · B. myriantha · B. nepalensis · B. nitidula · B. obliqua · B. oblongata · B. obtusata · B. pannosa · B. parallelinervis · B. pentagona · B. pohliana · B. polyacantha · B. reticaulis · B. rhamnifolia · B. rivularis · B. rubricaulis · B. scabra · B. scalpellata · B. scorpiura · B. sparganiocarpa · B. spruceana · B. subulifolia · B. sulcata · B. tereticaulis · B. tiliaefolia · B. uaupensis · B. uncinata · B. urosepala · B. urticifolia · B. velutina · B. vitifolia · B. voulily · B. weberhaueri

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: 15867415
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:821666-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3705224

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.