Family: Solanaceae
Duboisia
Citation:
R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 448 (1810).
Derivation: After Charles Dubois, 1656-1740, a London merchant and patron of botany.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Shrubs or trees, glabrous or almost so, with corky bark on the stem base; leaves alternate, simple, sessile or shortly petiolate, entire.
Flowers in terminal more or less leafy panicle-like aggregations, bisexual; calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, persistent; corolla regular, funnel-shaped, with a striated throat and 5 (rarely up to 7) narrowly or broadly acute or blunt lobes; lobes induplicate with inflexed margins in bud; stamens 4, in pairs of unequal length, included, inserted near the base of the corolla; staminode sometimes present; anthers not cohering, 1-celled, subreniform, dehiscing by a single long curved slit; ovary 2-celled.
Fruit a succulent berry, subtended at the base by a non-enlarged calyx; fruiting pedicel more or less erect; seeds subreniform, not flattened; testa reticulate. (C. Barnard (1952) Economic Botany 6:3-17).
Distribution:
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3 or 4 species, endemic to Australia except for one which extends to New Caledonia.
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Biology:
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Author:
Prepared by L. Haegi
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