Nightshades

Species: Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal Date: 2004-11-06 Location: Roadside verge, Borrowdale Common, near bridge Habitat: Disturbed ground

Species: Streptosolen jamesonii (Benth.) Miers Date: 2006-09-17 Location: Shenstone, Mt Hampden Habitat: In garden

Botanisk Have Århus

Tivoli

Randers, Jylland, Danmark

Kalives, Crete, Greece

Vitskøl Kloster, Vesthimmerland, Danmark

Spøttrup borg Vestsalling

Stenskov Huse, Besser, Samsø, Danmark

Botanisk Have Århus

Kværkeby Mose, Midtsjælland, Denmark

Botanisk Have Århus

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, US

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

Figure 2. Solanumkollastrum. A plant habit B detail of stem prickles C young inflorescence (upper right corner: detail of a more developed inflorescence) D flowering calyx E a short-styled and a long-styled flower displaying the extremes of variation of corolla size and colour found in the species (here exhibited by flowers of the same inflorescence); also note the various degrees of anther curvature and location of the apical pores compared with the images F and G F long-styled flower (hermaphroditic) with extrorse pores and slightly outwardly curved apices G short-styled flower (functionally male) with extrorse pores and markedly outwardly curved apices H infructescence with details of the strongly accrescent fruiting calyces (one of which was dissected to show the fruit) and the mature fruit colour (left side: details of fruit shape; right side: detail of a dissected fruit showing the four locules, placentation, seed colour and shape). Scale bars: 1.2 m (A); 3 cm (B, C, H); 1.5 cm (D, F, G); 1.8 cm (E). Photographs by Y.F. Gouvêa.

Figure 3. Detail of Solanumkollastrum indumentum. A trichomes composing the indumentum of the stems, petioles and inflorescence axis B indumentum of the adaxial leaf surface C Indumentum of the abaxial leaf surface D Trichomes composing the indumentum of the abaxial leaf surface. Scale bars: 6 mm (A); 5 mm (B); 3 mm (C); 1.5 mm (D). Photographs by Y.F. Gouvêa