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 Federal Protected Areas, Desert West || << 51 - 89 taxa >>
Physalis mollis
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Physalis neomexicana
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Physalis philadelphica
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Physalis pubescens
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Physalis pumila
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Physalis solanacea
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Physalis versicolor
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Physalis virginiana
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Physalis viscosa
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Quincula lobata
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Salpichroa origanifolia
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Saracha sessilis
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Solanum adscendens
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Solanum americanum
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Solanum carolinense
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Solanum citrullifolium
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Solanum davisense
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Solanum dimidiatum
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Solanum douglasii
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Solanum elaeagnifolium
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Solanum fendleri
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Solanum heterodoxum
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Solanum hindsianum
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Solanum jamesii
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Solanum lumholtzianum
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Solanum nigrescens
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Solanum nigrum
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Solanum physalifolium
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Solanum pseudocapsicum
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Solanum ptycanthum
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Solanum ptychanthum
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Solanum rostratum
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Solanum sarrachoides
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Solanum stoloniferum
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Solanum triflorum
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Solanum triquetrum
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Solanum tuberosum
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Solanum villosum
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Solanum xanti
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