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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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Brunfelsia americana
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Brunfelsia portoricensis
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Calibrachoa parviflora
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Calliphysalis carpenteri
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Capsicum annuum
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Capsicum frutescens
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Cestrum alternifolium
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Cestrum aurantiacum
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Cestrum diurnum
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Cestrum salicifolium
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Chamaesaracha coniodes
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Chamaesaracha coronopus
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Chamaesaracha edwardsiana
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Chamaesaracha pallida
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Chamaesaracha sordida
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Datura discolor
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Datura ferox
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Datura innoxia
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Datura inoxia
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Datura metel
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Datura quercifolia
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Datura stramonium
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Datura wrightii
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Goetzea elegans
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Henoonia myrtifolia
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Hunzikeria texana
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