''Lycianthes'' is a
genus
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of
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...
s from the nightshade family (
Solanaceae
The Solanaceae , or nightshades, are a family of flowering plants that ranges from annual and perennial herbs to vines, lianas, epiphytes, shrubs, and trees, and includes a number of agricultural crops, medicinal plants, spices, weeds, and orn ...
), found in both the
Old World
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and the
New World
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, but predominantly in the latter. It contains roughly 150
species
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, mostly from tropical America, with 35-40 species in Asia and the Pacific.
Characteristics
''Lycianthes'' is apparently closely related to the
chili and bell peppers (''Capsicum''). However, it was long confused with the
nightshades (''Solanum''), and several little-known ''Solanum'' species presumably belong here.
Solanaceae Source: A global taxonomic resource for the nightshade family
Retrieved 25 June 2015.
Species
Full species list in ''The Plant List''
''Lycianthes'' in The Plant List (2010). Version 1. Published on the Internet
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Species
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include:
* '' Lycianthes australis'' (C.V.Morton) Hunz. & Barboza
* '' Lycianthes biflora'' (Lour.) Bitter
* ''Lycianthes denticulata
''Lycianthes'' is a genus of plants from the nightshade family (Solanaceae), found in both the Old World and the New World, but predominantly in the latter. It contains roughly 150 species, mostly from tropical America, with 35-40 species in Asia ...
'' (Blume) Bitter
* '' Lycianthes hypochrysea''
* ''Lycianthes laevis
''Lycianthes'' is a genus of plants from the nightshade family ( Solanaceae), found in both the Old World and the New World, but predominantly in the latter. It contains roughly 150 species, mostly from tropical America, with 35-40 species in As ...
'' (Dunal) Bitter
* '' Lycianthes lycioides'' (L.) Hassl.
* ''Lycianthes mociniana
''Lycianthes'' is a genus of plants from the nightshade family (Solanaceae), found in both the Old World and the New World, but predominantly in the latter. It contains roughly 150 species, mostly from tropical America, with 35-40 species in Asia ...
'' (Dunal) Bitter – ''tlanochtle'' (Nahuatl
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)
* ''Lycianthes rantonnetii
''Lycianthes rantonnetii'', the blue potato bush or Paraguay nightshade, is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae, native plant, native to South America. Growing to about tall and broad, it is a rounded evergreen shru ...
'' (Carrière) Bitter – blue potato bush
* ''Lycianthes rimbachii
''Lycianthes rimbachii'' is a species of plant in the family Solanaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, w ...
''
* ''Lycianthes shanesii
''Lycianthes'' is a genus of plants from the nightshade family ( Solanaceae), found in both the Old World and the New World, but predominantly in the latter. It contains roughly 150 species, mostly from tropical America, with 35-40 species in As ...
'' (F.Muell.) A.R.Bean
* ''"Solanum chrysophyllum
''Solanum chrysophyllum'' is a flowering plant species in the nightshade family ( Solanaceae). It probably belongs to a group of species formerly in ''Solanum'' but nowadays placed in ''Lycianthes'', though its exact identity and name remain und ...
"''
* ''"Solanum lanuginosum
''"Solanum lanuginosum"'' is a flowering plant species in the nightshade family ( Solanaceae). It probably belongs to those species formerly in ''Solanum'' but nowadays placed in ''Lycianthes'', though its exact identity and name remain undeterm ...
"''
* ''"Solanum loxense
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"''
* ''"Solanum mucronatum
''"Solanum mucronatum"'' (sometimes called "pepino", which usually refers to '' S. muricatum'') is a flowering plant species in the nightshade family ( Solanaceae). It probably belongs to those species formerly in ''Solanum'' but nowadays placed ...
"'' – "pepino
''Solanum muricatum'' is a species of evergreen shrub native to South America and grown for its sweet edible fruit.
It is known as ''pepino dulce'' ("sweet cucumber" in English, in order to differentiate it from cucumber which is also called ...
"
Related species
Other ''"Solanum"'' taxa
In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular nam ...
of unknown identity but presumably belonging into ''Lycianthes'' include ''S. ciliatum'' Blume ex Miq., ''S. corniculatum'' Hiern, ''S. retrofractum'' var. ''acuminatum'', ''S. violaceum'' Blume, ''S. violifolium'' f. ''typicum'', ''S. virgatum'' notst ''β albiflorum'', ''S. uniflorum'' Lag. and ''S. uniflorum'' var. ''berterianum''.[
]
See also
* Nonochton
''Nonochton'' is the Classical Nahuatl name for a plant whose identity is uncertain. Suggested plants include ''Portulaca'', '' Pereskiopsis'', and '' Lycianthes mociniana'', a plant now called '' tlanochtle'' in the local variety of modern Nahu ...
References
External links
Solanaceae genera
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