Solanaceae
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JANAS 33(1)
PLANT: Herbs, vines, shrubs, or small trees, with stellate or branched hairs, often armed with prickles, often producing alkaloids, producing no latex. LEAVES: alternate, simple or compound, exstipulate. FLOWERS: usually perfect, solitary or borne in cymose inflorescences; corolla sympetalous, rotate to tubular, usually 5-lobed, usually actinomorphic; stamens epipetalous, alternating with corolla lobes; anthers opening by longitudinal slits or terminal pores, distinct or united; gynoecium usually 2-carpelate, the carpels united in a usually bilocular, superior ovary. FRUIT: a berry or capsule; seeds usually numerous. NOTES: Ca. 85 genera, ca. 2800 species, nearly worldwide, best developed in tropical America; ca. 11 genera in AZ. Datura, is distinguished from other Solanaceae in AZ by its solitary flowers with large white to purplish-tinged corollas and spiny capsules. REFERENCES: Bye, Robert. 2001. Solanaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 33(1).
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Species within checklist: Arizona || << 1 - 50 taxa >>
Browallia eludens
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Calibrachoa parviflora
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Capsicum annuum
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Capsicum baccatum
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Chamaesaracha coniodes
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Chamaesaracha coronopus
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Chamaesaracha sordida
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Datura discolor
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Datura quercifolia
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Datura stramonium
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Datura wrightii
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Jaltomata procumbens
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Lycium andersonii
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Lycium berlandieri
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Lycium californicum
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Lycium cooperi
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Lycium exsertum
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Lycium fremontii
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Lycium macrodon
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Lycium pallidum
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Lycium parishii
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Lycium torreyi
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Margaranthus solanaceous
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Nicotiana attenuata
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Nicotiana clevelandii
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Nicotiana glauca
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Nicotiana obtusifolia
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Nicotiana quadrivalvis
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Physalis acutifolia
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Physalis angulata
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Physalis caudella
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Physalis crassifolia
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Physalis hederifolia
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Physalis heterophylla
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Physalis hispida
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Physalis latiphysa
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Physalis longifolia
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Physalis microcarpa
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Physalis philadelphica
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Physalis pubescens
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Physalis subulata
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Quincula lobata
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Salpichroa origanifolia
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Solanum adscendens
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Solanum americanum
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Solanum carolinense
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Solanum douglasii
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Solanum elaeagnifolium
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Solanum heterodoxum
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Solanum hindsianum
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