Fabiana clarenii

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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.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.

Biology

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Damm. Publication : Bot. Jahrb. Syst. xxxvii. 167.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Fabiana

There are approximately 51 species in this genus:

F. araucana · F. barriosi · F. barrisii · F. biflora · F. bryoides · F. clarenii · F. cordifolia · F. densa · F. densa var. ramulosa · F. denudata · F. deserticola · F. ericoides · F. fiebrigii · F. foliosa · F. friesii · F. glandulosa · F. grandiflora · F. heterophylla · F. hieronymi · F. imbrica · F. imbricata (False Heath) · F. imbricata 'Alba' (False Heath) · F. imbricata 'Prostrata' · F. imbricata 'Violacea' (False Heath) · F. imbricata f. violacea · F. imbricata f. violacea dark-flowered · F. imbricata var. biflora · F. indica · F. kurtziana · F. lanuginosa · F. lutescens · F. nana · F. patagonica · F. patagonica var. brachyloba · F. patagonica var. foliosa · F. patagonica var. gracilis · F. patagonica var. nana · F. patagonica var. typica · F. peckii · F. peckii var. patagonica · F. petunioides · F. punensis · F. ramulosa · F. sellowiana · F. squamata · F. squamuligera · F. stephanii · F. thymifolia · F. violacea · F. viscosa · F. weberbaueri

Bibliography

• Kuang Ko-zen & Lu An-ming, eds. 1978. Solanaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(1): 1-175.

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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed March 24, 2007.

Identifiers

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15861672
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:815728-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 102914-2
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1411760

Footnotes

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