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JANAS 33(1)
PLANT: Herbs, vines, shrubs, or small trees, with stellate or branched hairs, often armed with prickles, often producing alkaloids, producing no latex. LEAVES: alternate, simple or compound, exstipulate. FLOWERS: usually perfect, solitary or borne in cymose inflorescences; corolla sympetalous, rotate to tubular, usually 5-lobed, usually actinomorphic; stamens epipetalous, alternating with corolla lobes; anthers opening by longitudinal slits or terminal pores, distinct or united; gynoecium usually 2-carpelate, the carpels united in a usually bilocular, superior ovary. FRUIT: a berry or capsule; seeds usually numerous. NOTES: Ca. 85 genera, ca. 2800 species, nearly worldwide, best developed in tropical America; ca. 11 genera in AZ. Datura, is distinguished from other Solanaceae in AZ by its solitary flowers with large white to purplish-tinged corollas and spiny capsules. REFERENCES: Bye, Robert. 2001. Solanaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 33(1).
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Acnistus arborescens
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Alkekengi indica
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Alkekengi officinarum
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Anisodus luridus
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Anthocercis angustifolia
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Anthocercis anisantha
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Anthocercis littorea
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Anthotroche pannosa
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Athenaea picta
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Athenaea viscosa
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Atropa baetica
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Atropa bella-donna
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Atropa belladonna
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Atropanthe sinensis
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Aureliana fasciculata
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Aureliana velutina
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Aureliana wettsteiniana
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Bassovia escuintlensis
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Bassovia macrophylla
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Bassovia mexicana
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Bassovia stellata
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Bellinia umbellata
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Benthamiella patagonica
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Bouchetia anomala
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Bouchetia arniatera
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Bouchetia erecta
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Bouchetia procumbens
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Brachistus nelsonii
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Brachistus pringlei
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Brachistus stramonifolius
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Brachistus stramoniifolius
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Brachistus strigosus
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Browallia acutiloba
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Browallia americana
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Browallia eludens
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Browallia speciosa
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Browallia texana
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Brugmansia aurea
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Brugmansia candida
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Brugmansia sanguinea
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Brugmansia suaveolens
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Brugmansia versicolor
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