Datura innoxia

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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]

Genus Datura

Shrubs or annual or perennial herbs; pubescence of simple sometimes glandular hairs . Leaves petiolate ; leaf blade simple, entire or sinuate-dentate. Inflorescences solitary flowers in leaf axils or in branch forks; peduncle, bracts, and bracteoles absent. Flowers actinomorphic , large. Pedicel often stout. Calyx long tubular or cylindric , often circumscissile near base . Corolla elongated, funnelform ; lobes sometimes cuspidate . Anthers mostly elongated, dehiscing longitudinally, included . Ovary 2-4-locular. Fruit a dry capsule, 4-valved or irregularly dehiscent , prickly or unarmed , often subtended by remnants of persistent calyx. Seeds numerous , laterally compressed ; embryo curved .

About 11 species: North and South America, three species in China.[2]

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,524 meters (0 to 8,281 feet).[3]

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Datura

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 47 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

D. arborea (Maikoa) · D. bernhardtii (Devils Trumpet) · D. candida (Angel's-Trumpet) · D. ceratocaula (Devils Trumpet) · D. discolor (Desert Thorn Apple) · D. fastuosa 'Double Golden' (Devils Trumpet) · D. inermis (Smoooth Thorn-Apple) · D. innoxia (Angel's Trumpet) · D. inoxia (Devils Trumpet) · D. inoxia inoxia (Downy Thornapple) · D. inoxia 'Evening Fragrance' (Datura) · D. inoxia 'Missouri Marble' (Variegated Evening Trumpet) · D. kymatocarpa (Datura) · D. leichhardtii (Devils Trumpet) · D. metaloides (Jimsonweed) · D. metel var. fastuosa (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel var. muricata (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Alba' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Aurea' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Ballerina Purple' (Ballerina Purple Angel's Trumpet) · D. metel 'Ballerina Yellow' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Belle Blanche' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Black Currant Swirl' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Cornucopaea' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Double Cream' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Double Golden Queen' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Double Lavender' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Double Purple' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Double White Lady' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Frilled Double Purple' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Purple Petticoats' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Triple Yellow' (Devils Trumpet) · D. pruinosa (Datura) · D. quercifolia (Chinese Datura) · D. reburra (Datura) · D. seraticaula (Devils Trumpet) · D. stramonium (Jamestown Weed) · D. stramonium subsp. stramonium (Purple Thorn-Apple) · D. stramonium var. stramonium (Common Thorn-Apple) · D. suaveolens (Angel's Trumpet Tree) · D. tatula var. inermis (Devils Trumpet) · D. versicolor (Peach Angel's-Trumpet) · D. wrightii (Devils Trumpet) · D. wrightii 'High Altitude Form' (Devils Trumpet) · D. x candida (Angel's Trumpet) · D. 'Eryngium Blue' (Devils Trumpet) · D. 'Lilac Le Fleur' (Common Thorn-Apple)

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Further Reading

• A general history of the dichlamydeous plants, comprising complete descriptions of the different orders; together with the characters of the genera and species, and an enumeration of the cultivated varieties. .. the scientific names accentuated, t By George Don. London, J.G. and F. Rivington [etc.]1831-38. url p. 474.
• A general system of gardening and botany. Founded upon Miller's Gardener's dictionary, and arranged according to the natural system. By George Don. London, Printed for C. J. G. and F. Rivington, 1831-38. url p. 474.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url , p. 545, p. 549, p. 550, p. 551.
• Bartonia;proceedings of the Philadelphia botanical club. .. 42 - 46 1973 - 19 Philadelphia, Philadelphia Botanical Club, Academy of Natural Sciences. url p. 11, p. 13.
• Botanical abstracts. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Co. url p. 314.
• Embryogenesis in plants. London, Methuen;[1955] url p. 302, p. 368.
• Erigenia: journal of the Illinois Native Plant Society. Carbondale, Ill.: The Society, 1982- url p. 7.
• Flora of Illinois, containing keys for identification of flowering plants and ferns. Notre Dame, Ind., University of Notre Dame Press, 1963. url p. 196.
• Flora of Yucatan, by Paul C. Standley. 3 1930 Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1930. url p. 408.
• Flora of the U.S.S.R. [Springfield, Va.: Israel Program for Scientific Translations; 1968- url , p. 101, p. 717.
• Inventory of seeds and plants imported / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1914-1924. url p. 45.
• Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Washington [etc., Washington Academy of Sciences] url p. 173, p. 177, p. 178, p. 179, p. 180.
• Phytologia memoirs. Plainfield, N.J.: H.N. Moldenke and A.L. Moldenke, 1980- url p. 476.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 222.
• Poisonous plants of Canada / [Ottawa]: Agriculture Canada, 1990. url p. 44, p. 52, p. 56, p. 83.
• Proceedings and transactions of the British Entomological and Natural History Society. London, British Entomological and Natural History Society. url p. 51.
• Station bulletin. Durham, N.H.: Agricultural Experiment Station, University of New Hampshire, 1948- url p. 89.
• The Journal of heredity. Washington, etc., American Genetic Association url p. 179, p. 179, p. 188, p. 188.
• The ethnobotany of southern Balochistan, Pakistan: with particular reference to medicinal plants / Steven M. Goodman, Abdul Ghafoor. 31 1992 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, c1992. url list of illustrations , p. 40, p. 41, p. 81, p. iii.
• Kuang Ko-zen & Lu An-ming, eds. 1978. Solanaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(1): 1-175.
• Kuang Ko-zen & Lu An-ming, eds. 1978. Solanaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(1): 1-175.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 04, 2007:

• Bundesamt für Naturschutz / Zentralstelle für Phytodiversität Deutschland, Bundesamt fuer Naturschutz / Zentralstelle fuer Phytodiversitaet Deutschland
• GBIF-Spain, Dirección General de Investigación, Desarrollo Tecnológico e Innovación de la Junta de Extremadura(DGIDTI): HSS
• GBIF-Spain, Universidad de Almería, HUAL
• International Plant Genetic Resources Institute(IPGRI), EURISCO
• Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Israel Nature and Parks Authority
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Herbarium of Oskarshamn
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Lund Botanical Museum
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Plants
• Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2653600
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-30517
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13809567
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 30517
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: DAIN5
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 34572

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. [back]
2. "Datura". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 330. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
3. Mean = 141.770 meters (465.125 feet), Standard Deviation = 328.130 based on 131 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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