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Brunfelsia pilosa

(Manaca Root)

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Manaca Root

Description

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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.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.

Taxonomy

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Notes

Publishing author : Plowman Publication : in Bot. Mus. Leafl. Harvard Univ., 24(2): 42 (1974).An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Brunfelsia

There are approximately 128 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

B. abbottii · B. acuminata · B. acuminata f. ramosissima · B. acunae · B. amazonica · B. americana (American Brunfelsia) · B. americana var. pubescens · B. augusta · B. australis (Eternity Plant) · B. bahiensis · B. boliviana · B. bonodora · B. brasiliensis · B. brasiliensis macrocalyx · B. brasiliensis subsp. macrocalyx · B. brasiliensis var. acuminata · B. burchellii · B. calycina · B. calycina f. grandiflora · B. calycina var. eximia · B. calycina var. floribunda · B. calycina var. lindeniana · B. calycina var. macrantha · B. capitata · B. cestroides · B. chiricaspi (Brunfelsia) · B. chocoensis · B. clandestina · B. clarensis · B. confertiflora · B. cuneifolia · B. densiflora (Brunfelsia) · B. densifolia (Serpentine Hill Raintree) · B. dwyeri · B. eximia · B. falcata · B. fallax · B. fawcetii · B. fawcettii · B. floribunda · B. gigantea (Lady of The Night) · B. gracilis · B. grandiflora (Brazil Raintree) · B. grandiflora grandiflora · B. grandiflora schultesii · B. grandiflora subsp. schultesii · B. grisebachii · B. guianensis · B. harrisii · B. hopeana var. australis · B. hopeana var. macrocalyx · B. hopeana var. pubescens · B. hoppeana · B. hydrangeaeformis · B. hydrangeiformis · B. hydrangeiformis capitata · B. hydrangeiformis subsp. capitata · B. hydrangeiformis var. glabriuscula · B. imatacana · B. inodora · B. isola (Lady of The Night) · B. jamaicensis (Lady of the Night) · B. lactea (Lady of the Night) · B. latifolia (Kiss Me Quick) · B. lindeniana · B. linearis · B. lockharti · B. longiflora · B. longituba · B. macrocarpa · B. macroloba · B. macrophylla · B. magnifica (Magnificent Brunfelsia) · B. maliformis · B. manaca (Manaca) · B. maritima · B. martiana · B. membranacea · B. mire (Brunfelsia) · B. montana · B. multiflora · B. mutabilis · B. nitida (Brunfelsia) · B. nitida var. jamaicensis · B. nyctaginoides (Brunfelsia) · B. obovata · B. obovata coriacea · B. obovata var. coriacea · B. obovata var. obovata · B. paraguayensis · B. parviflora · B. parvifolia · B. pauciflora (Brazil Raintree) · B. pauciflora 'Eximia' · B. pauciflora 'Floribunda Compacta' · B. pauciflora 'Floribunda' (Today and Tomorrow) · B. pauciflora 'Lindeniana' · B. pauciflora 'Macrantha' · B. pauciflora var. calycina · B. picardae

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 18, 2007:

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Last Revised: 2008-10-03