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Datura

L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Solanales Family: Solanaceae Genus: Datura

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Annual or short-lived perennial herbs, glabrous or pubescent with glandular or simple, nonglandular hairs; roots sometimes swollen and subtuberous.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Margins entire or lobed. Petiolate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers actinomorphic, solitary in stem forks. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx tubular, usually 5-lobed, circumscissile after anthesis, base persistent in fruit. Corolla white, purplish, or yellowish, trumpet–shaped, 5-lobed or appearing 10-lobed, folded and twisted in bud. Stamens 5; filaments inserted in lower 1⁄2 of corolla tube; anthers dithecal, basifixed, opening by slits. Ovary superior, 2-celled or appearing 4-celled in the lower part; ovule placentation axile; style 1; stigma saddle–shaped.

Fruit: Capsules 2–4–celled; spiny or tuberculate. opening regularly or irregularly. Seeds numerous; irregularly D–shaped; reticulate; embryo curved; endosperm present. Self–compatible.

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Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

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Natural History

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 179 (1753)

Occurrences

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