Datura

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

• Family

  Solanaceae

• Scientific Name

  Datura

• Description

  Genus Description - Herbs or subshrubs, with strong fetid smell. Leaves simple, entire, lobed, or incised, long-petiolate. Rowers actinomorphic, 5- merous, solitary, axillary; calyx long-tubular, usually 5-angled, deeply lobed at apex; corolla funnel-shaped, with plaited limb, 5-lobed, usually with an accessory lobe between lobes (for a total of 10); stamens 5, included, the filaments inserted on lower half of tube, the anthers opening by longitudinal slits; ovary of 2 connate carpels, the placentation axile with numerous ovules, the style filiform. Fruit a valvate capsule, subtended by the persistent, reflexed base of the calyx; seeds numerous, flattened, kidney-shaped or nearly so.