Lycianthes (Dunal) Hassl.
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Lycianthes
Hierbas, arbustos o bejucos herbáceos o leñosos, sin espinas, glabros o con pelos simples o estrellados. Hojas alternas, simples, enteras, pecioladas; estípulas ausentes. Flores bisexuales, actinomorfas, 5-meras, solitarias o en fasciculo axilares. Cáliz campanulado o crateriforme, truncado, usualmente con 5-10 apéndices lineares en el margen o cerca de éste; corola rotácea, con el limbo pentagonal o lobado; estambres 5, los filamentos más cortos que las anteras, libres, incertos en el tubo, las anteras concrescentes, dehiscentes por poros terminales; ovario súpero, con dos carpelos connatos, la placentación axial, con numerosos óvulos, el estilo simple. Fruto una baya usualmente globosa, con el cáliz acrescente en la base; semillas numerosas, discoides. Género pantropical con alrededor de 200 especies.
Lycianthes
Herbs, shrubs, or herbaceous or woody vines, without spines, glabrous or pubescent with simple or stellate hairs. Leaves alternate, simple, entire; stipules absent. Flowers actinomorphic, 5-merous, bisexual, solitary or fasciculate, axillary. Calyx campanulate or crateriform, truncate, usually with 5-10 linear appendages on or near the margin; corolla rotate, with the limb pentagonal or lobate; stamens 5, the filaments shorter than the anthers, the anthers concrescent, dehiscent by terminal pores; ovary superior, of two connate carpels, with a single style, the placentation axile, with numerous ovules. Fruit a berry, usually globose, with the calyx accrescent at the base; seeds numerous, discoid. A pantropical genus of about 200 species.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:25
Specimens with Sequences:31
Specimens with Barcodes:28
Species:11
Species With Barcodes:11
Public Records:16
Public Species:9
Public BINs:0
Lycianthes is a genus of plants from the nightshade family (Solanaceae), found in both the Old World and the New World, but predominantly in the latter. It contains roughly 150 species, mostly from tropical America, with 35-40 species in Asia and the Pacific.
Characteristics[edit]
Lycianthes is apparently closely related to the chili and bell peppers (Capsicum). However, it was long confused with the nightshades (Solanum), and several little-known "Solanum" species presumably belong here.[1]
Species[edit]
Full species list in The Plant List[2]
Species include:
- Lycianthes australis (C.V.Morton) Hunz. & Barboza
- Lycianthes biflora (Lour.) Bitter
- Lycianthes denticulata (Blume) Bitter
- Lycianthes hypochrysea
- Lycianthes laevis (Dunal) Bitter
- Lycianthes lycioides (L.) Hassl.
- Lycianthes mociniana (Dunal) Bitter – tlanochtle (Nahuatl)
- Lycianthes rantonnetii (Carrière) Bitter – Blue Potato Bush
- Lycianthes rimbachii
- Lycianthes shanesii (F.Muell.) A.R.Bean
- "Solanum chrysophyllum"
- "Solanum lanuginosum"
- "Solanum loxense"
- "Solanum mucronatum" – "pepino"
Related species[edit]
Other "Solanum" taxa of unknown identity but presumably belonging into Lycianthes include S. ciliatum Blume ex Miq., S. corniculatum Hiern, S. retrofractum var. acuminatum, S. violaceum Blume, S. violifolium f. typicum, S. virgatum notst β albiflorum, S. uniflorum Lag. and S. uniflorum var. berterianum.[1]
See also[edit]
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ a b Solanaceae Source [2008]
- ^ Lycianthes in The Plant List (2010). Version 1. Published on the Internet
References[edit]
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- Solanaceae Source [2008]: PBI Solanum: A worldwide treatment. Retrieved 2008-OCT-01.
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