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Solanaceae: Solanales

Solanaceae: Solanales. Habit: Herbs, shrubs, trees, vines Hairs: Often stellate, prickles or spines Leaves: Simple, alternate, exstipulate (sometimes deeply lobed), may be adenate to stem Inflorescence: Determinate, cymose or solitary Flowers (overall): Showy, bisexual

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Solanaceae: Solanales

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  1. Solanaceae: Solanales Habit: Herbs, shrubs, trees, vines Hairs: Often stellate, prickles or spines Leaves: Simple, alternate, exstipulate (sometimes deeply lobed), may be adenate to stem Inflorescence: Determinate, cymose or solitary Flowers (overall): Showy, bisexual Floral Symmetry: Radial Calyx: 5 connate sepals, often persistant Corolla: 5 connate petals, rotate to tubular, plicate (folded), lobe end turned inward or reflexed

  2. Solanaceae: Solanales Androecium: 5 epipetalous stamens, alternate, connivient anthers (touching) Gynoecium: 2 connate carpels, tilted, superior ovary, terminal (gynobasic) style Placentation: axile Fruit: Berry or capsule Pollination regime: Bees, wasps & flies (pollen sp. only). Moths, butterflies (nectar sp.) Interesting Species: Tomato, eggplant, tobacco, jimsonweed, petunia Gestalt: "5-5-5-2" Hairs, plicate corolla, berry, rotate flower, connivient anthers

  3. Potato, connivent anthers, plicate corolla

  4. Buffalo-bur

  5. Poisonous berries

  6. Atropa belladonna, alkaloids used to treat heart problems

  7. Physalis virginiana, ground cherry

  8. Physalis alkekengi, Ornamental calyx

  9. Nicotina sp.

  10. Brugmansia sp. tree plicate corolla

  11. Nightshade

  12. Alt leaves, Plicate corolla,

  13. Boraginaceae:Solanales Habit: Herbs, shrubs, trees, woody vines(lianas) Hairs: Rough bristly hairs Leaves: Alternate, simple, exstipulate Inflorescence: Helicoid (Scorpoid) cyme, determinate Flowers (overall): Bisexual, funellform or tubular Floral Symmetry: Actinomorphic Calyx: 5 connate sepals Corolla: 5 connate petals

  14. Boraginaceae:Solanales Androecium: 5 epipetalous stamens, alternate the lobes Gynoecium: 2 connate carpels, deeply 4-lobed, gynobasic style (or terminal), superior ovary, nectar disc around ovary base Placentation: axile Fruit: 4-parted nutlet Pollination regime: bees wasps, butterflies, flies, (also moths, beetles, bats and birds) Interesting Species:Heliotrope, borage, hounds tongue, forget-me-not, bluebells, amsinkia, popcorn flower Gestalt: round stems, 4-part nutlet, gynobasic style, bristly, helicoid cyme, often toxic ( alkaloids, nitrates), "5-5-5-2"

  15. Bristles, Helicoid cyme 5 pattern Alt. stamens

  16. 4-part ovary, Gynobasic style bristles

  17. Forget me nots

  18. Popcorn flower

  19. Boraginaceae("Hydrophyllaceae"):Solanales Habit: Herbs and shrubs Hairs: hairy or spiny Leaves: Alternate (basal), simple but sometimes compound Inflorescence: Helicoid (Scorpoid) cyme, determinate Flowers (overall): Bisexual, rotate Floral Symmetry: Actinomorphic Calyx: 5 connate sepals Corolla: 5 connate petals, often with appendages within

  20. Boraginaceae("Hydrophyllaceae"):Solanales Androecium: 5 epipetalous stamens, alternate lobes Gynoecium: 2 connate carpels, ovary superior, styles often 2-lobed, not gynobasic numerous ovules on 2 parietal placentas Placentation: parietal Fruit: capsule Interesting Species: Baby blue eyes, phacelia Gestalt: helicoid cyme, round stem, split style, hairy, entire ovary, many ovules on parietal placenta (look for this in lab), "5-5-5-2"

  21. Split style

  22. Atypical

  23. Apocynaceae:Gentianales Habit: Trees, shrubs, vines, herbs with milky sap Leaves: Simple, entire, opposite or whorled, exstipulate Inflorescence: Racemose, cymose or solitary, often determinate Flowers (overall): Bisexual Floral Symmetry: Actinomorphic Calyx: 5 connate sepals, glandular inside Corolla: 5 connate petals, spiral or contorted in bud Androecium: 5 epipetalous stamens

  24. Apocynaceae:Gentianales Gynoecium: 2 connate carpels (apically united), ovary superior or half-inferior Placentation: Marginal Fruit: follicle, capsule, drupe or berry, seed with tuft of hair Pollination regime: great diversity, specialized mechanisms, 3-zone style (deposition, sticky middle, reception) [get nectar from base of stylar head and deposit pollen, get sticky, pick up pollen on the way out] Other comments: Contain poisons, poison arrows Interesting Species: Vinca, Oleander, Dogbane Gestalt: Milky sap, opposite leaves, contorted bud, "5-5-5-2", glandular calyx. 3-part style

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