Lycianthes
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Solanaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - 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 aboul 200 species.