The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Key to SOLANACEAE

N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.

  1. Fruit a capsule
 
    2. Fruit wall prickly
DATURA
    2' Fruit wall not prickly
 
      3. Calyx lobes > tube, wing-like at base in fruit
NICANDRA (no key)
      3' Calyx lobes < or, if > tube, not wing-like at base in fruit
 
        4. Corolla narrowly urn-shaped; seeds flat, narrowly winged
ORYCTES (no key)
        4' Corolla funnel-shaped; seeds angled but not flat, not winged
 
          5. Flowers in racemes or panicles (only lower bracts leaf-like)
NICOTIANA
          5' Flowers solitary in axils of leaves or leaf-like bracts
PETUNIA (no key)
  1' Fruit a berry
 
    6. Corolla salverform to funnel-shaped (urn-shaped in Salpichroa)
 
      7. Shrub, thorny
LYCIUM
      7' Perennial or shrub, unarmed
 
        8. Erect shrub; corolla narrowly funnel-shaped, red
CESTRUM (no key)
        8' Decumbent or climbing per; corolla urn-shaped, white or greenish
SALPICHROA (no key)
    6' Corolla ± rotate to shallowly bell-shaped
 
      9. Anthers opening by pores or short slits near tip
SOLANUM
      9' Anthers opening by slits from tip to near base
 
        10. Anthers generally > filaments
 
          11. Anthers adherent; leaves ± odd-1–2-pinnate
LYCOPERSICON
          11' Anthers free; leaves entire to deeply lobed
SOLANUM
        10' Anthers generally < filaments
 
          12. Calyx in fruit not bladder-like; corolla tube tomentose between filament bases
CHAMAESARACHA
          12' Calyx in fruit bladder-like; corolla tube hairy but not tomentose between filament bases
PHYSALIS


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