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).
Species within checklist: Flora of the Southern Colorado Plateau Network
Calibrachoa parviflora
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Chamaesaracha coronopus
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Datura inoxia
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Datura quercifolia
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Datura wrightii
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Lycium andersonii
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Lycium barbarum
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Lycium cooperi
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Lycium exsertum
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Lycium fremontii
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Lycium pallidum
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Lycium torreyi
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Nicotiana attenuata
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Nicotiana glauca
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Nicotiana obtusifolia
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Nicotiana trigonophylla
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Physalis acutifolia
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Physalis crassifolia
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Physalis hederifolia
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Physalis longifolia
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Physalis neomexicana
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Physalis pubescens
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Physalis virginiana
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Quincula lobata
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Solanum americanum
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Solanum douglasii
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Solanum elaeagnifolium
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Solanum fendleri
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Solanum jamesii
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Solanum nigrum
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Solanum physalifolium
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Solanum ptychanthum
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Solanum rostratum
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Solanum triflorum
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