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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

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:  3 or 4 species, endemic to Australia except for one which extends to New Caledonia.

Biology: No text

Author: Prepared by L. Haegi


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