Category: Solanaceae

Keys available in attachment at efi thread (along with difference between Solandra grandiflora and Solandra maxima) From Floral Database of Tamilnadu : Binomial Habit Notes References Distribution Solandra grandiflora Sw. Shrub Western Ghats, Evergreen Forests,  Cultivated, Native of Tropical America Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987 Nilgiri  Species with description & pictures in Flowers of […]

Solanum aethiopicum L. (Introduced) (Native range is a cultigen from NE. Tropical Africa: Eritrea, Ethiopia; Introduced into: Angola, Assam, Benin, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colorado, Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Illinois, Ivory Coast, Kentucky, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, […]

Let us evaluate our Physalis species : 4 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (1)- 7 mb.  Let us evaluate Physalis in India. Another genus in which species names have undergone considerable changes. Only two species were described in Flora of British India: Wild Physalis minima (and its one var. indica) and cultivated P. peruviana. As […]

  Nicotiana alata Link & Otto (Introduced)       Nicotiana plumbaginifolia Viv                                 Nicotiana rustica L. (Introduced)       Nicotiana sylvestris Speg. (Introduced) Nicotiana tabacum L. (Cultivated)                           […]

Nicandra;                    

Keys in Flora of Bhutan: I. Procumbent creeping herb with ascending branches 3. L. lysimachioides + Small shrub . . . . . . .. 2 2. Calyx teeth 5-7, linear-triangular, c 2mm  . . . . . .. 1. L. crassipetalum + Calyx teeth 10, subulate. 3.5-6mm (if teeth 10 and only 1.5-2mm, cf. L. biflora) . […]

Hyoscyamus;            

As per efi thread : In both D. stramonium and D. metel the plants are glabrous, hairy in D. inoxia The deciding difference between D. metel and D. stramonium is that mature fruit of D. metel is drooping, covered with short blunt tubercles barely exceeding 3 mm; in D. stramonium mature fruit is erect covered […]