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Botany 122:
Flowering Plant Identification

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Solanaceae: Nightshade Family

Family: Family: Solanaceae Nightshade Family
75/3,000 10/60 pg. 1068
Habit Herbs or shrubs
Stem: various
Leaves: Alternate, often sticky and glandular
Inflorescence: various
Flower: Regular, perfect hypogynous
Perianth: 5-merous
Calyx: 5 sepals, connate
Corolla: 5 petals, connate, rotate or tubular
Hypanthium: Ø
Androecium: 5 stamens, epipetalous; anthers connivent when corolla rotate
Gynoecium: Syncarpous 2
Ovary position: Superior
Stigma: {stigma_edit}
Style: Not distinctive
Fruit type: berry or capsule
Other:
Representatives:

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Solanum xanti

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