Solanaceae

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Solanaceae

• Scientific Name

  Solanaceae

• Description

  Family Description - Fls perfect, hypogynous, sympetalous, typically 5-merous; cal usually gamosepalous, generally persistent; cor regular in most genera, rotate to tubular, the lobes commonly plicate (and sometimes also convolute) in bud, or seldom merely convolute, imbricate, or valvate; stamens borne on the cor-tube, as many as and alternate with the lobes, rarely fewer; ovary superior, mostly bicarpellate and bilocular, with the carpels obliquely oriented to the median plane of the fl, or seldom (as in Nicandra) the carpels and locules 3–5; style terminal, with a lobed stigma; ovules ± numerous on axile, often thickened placentas; fr a capsule or berry; seeds with a dicotyledonous, generally linear, often curved and subperipheral embryo, usually with an oily endosperm; herbs or less often shrubs or even trees, with alternate or (as in Petunia) falsely opposite lvs, the fls in various sorts of basically cymose infls, sometimes solitary at the nodes. 85/2800, nearly cosmop.

• Common Names

  The nightshade family