Interesting Facts
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]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Solananae
()
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Solanales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Solanaceae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- nightshades, solanacées
- Subfamily:
Browallioideae
()
- Tribe:
Salpiglossideae
()
- Genus:
Salpiglossis
()
- Ruiz & Pavon, 1794
- Specific epithet:
coccinea
- Lindl. & Paxt.
- Botanical name: - Salpiglossis coccinea Lindl. & Paxt.
- Specific epithet:
coccinea
- Lindl. & Paxt.
- Genus:
Salpiglossis
(
- Tribe:
Salpiglossideae
(
- Subfamily:
Browallioideae
(
- Family:
Solanaceae
(
- Order:
Solanales
(
- Superorder:
Solananae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Salpiglossis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
S. sinuata (Painted Tongue) · S. sinuata 'Chocolate Royale' (Painted Tongue) · S. sinuata 'Emperor Mix' (Painted Tongue) · S. sinuata 'Grandiflora Mix' (Painted Tongue) · S. sinuata 'Kew Blue' (Painted Tongue) · S. sinuata 'Peacock Fan' (Painted Tongue) · S. sinuata 'Royale Mix' (Painted Tongue) · S. sinuata 'Splash' (Splash Scalloped Salpiglossis)
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Further Reading
- Beeton's Dictionary of everyday gardening. .. to which is added a monthly calendar of garden work throughout the year. London, Ward, Lock, 1909. url p. 13, p. 15.
- Cassell's popular gardening. London, Cassell & company, limited[1884-86] url .
- Garden flowers; how to cultivate them. A treatise on the culture of hardy ornamental trees, shrubs, annuals, herbaceous and bedding plants. By Edward Sprague Rand, jr.... New York, Hurd and Houghton, 1876. url p. 329.
- Hand-list of herbaceous plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens. London, Printed for H. M. Stationery Off. by Darling, 1902. url p. 979.
- The Cottage gardener. [London: W.S. Orr, url , p. 499.
- The Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette. 1853 London: published for the proprietors, 1844-1873. url p. 278.
- The journal of the Horticultural Society of London. London, [England]: Published for the Society, by Longman and Co., 1846-1855. url .
- 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 15, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9226815
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15863789
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:817786-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3702552
Footnotes
- 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]
