Solanaceae Juss.

First published in Gen. Pl. [Jussieu] 124. 1789 [4 Aug 1789] , as 'Solaneae' (1789)nom. cons.
This family is accepted

Accepted Genera

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • APG IV (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/boj.12385

The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook

  • Bohs, L. (1994). Cyphomandra (Solanaceae). Flora Neotropica, Monograph 63. New York Botanical Garden, New York.
  • Edmonds, J. M. (2012). Solanaceae. In: H. J. Beentje (ed.), Flora of Tropical East Africa. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Knapp, S. (2002). Solanum section Geminata (G. Don) Walpers (Solanaceae). Flora Neotropica, Monograph 84. New York Botanical Garden, New York.
  • PBI Solanum Project. (2015). Solanaceae Source. www.solanaceaesource.org/.
  • Peralta, I. E., Spooner, D. M. & Knapp, S. (2008). Taxonomy of wild tomatoes and their relatives (Solanum sections Lycopersicoides, Juglandifolia, Lycopersicon; Solanaceae). Systematic Botany Monographs 84: 1–186.

Neotropikey

  • Barboza, G.E. (2005). Revision of Solanum sect. Chamaesarachidium. Nordic Journal Botany. 23(2): 155-168.
  • Benítez de Rojas, C.E. (1974). Los géneros de las Solanaceae en Venezuela. Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía. (Maracay) 7(3): 25-108.
  • Bohs, L. (1990). The systematics of Solanum section Allophyllum. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 77: 398-409.
  • Bohs, L. (1994). Cyphomandra (Solanaceae). Flora Neotropica 63: 1-175.
  • Bohs, L. (2001). Revision of Solanum section Cyphomandropsis (Solanaceae). Syst. Bot. Monog. 61: 1-85.
  • Contreras-M., A. & D.M. Spooner (1999). Revision of Solanum section Etuberosum. In: M. Nee, D.E. Symon, &and J.P. Jessop (eds). Solanaceae IV: advances in biology and utilization. Pp. 227-245. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Edmonds, J.M. (1977). Taxonomic studies on Solanum section Solanum (Maurella). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 75: 141-178.
  • Hunziker, A.T. (2000). The genera of Solanaceae. Ruggell: A.R.G. Gantner Verlag.
  • Knapp, S. (2002). Floral diversity and evolution in the Solanaceae. In Developmental genetics and plant evolution (eds. Q.C.B. Cronk, R.M. Bateman & J.A. Hawkins) pp. 267-297. London: Taylor & Francis.
  • Knapp, S. (2002). Solanum section Geminata (G. Don) Walpers (Solanaceae). Flora Neotropica 84: 1-405.
  • Knapp, S. (2008). A revision of the Solanumhavanense species group (section Geminata (G. Don) Walp. pro parte) and new taxonomic additions to the Geminata clade (Solanum: Solanaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 95(3): 405-458.
  • Olmstead, R.G., Bohs, L., Migid, H.A., Santiago-Valentin, E., García, V.F. & Collier, S.M. (2008). A molecular phylogeny of the Solanaceae. Taxon 57, 1159-1181.
  • Peralta, I.E., D.M. Spooner & S. Knapp. (2008). Taxonomy of wild tomatoes and their relatives (Solanum sections Lycopersicoides, Juglandifolia, Lycopersicon; Solanaceae). Systematic Botany Monographs 84: 1-186.
  • Plowman, T.C. (ed. S. Knapp & J.R. Press). (1998). A revision of the South American species of Brunfelsia (Solanaceae). Fieldiana, Botany. n.s. 39, 1-135.
  • Santiago-Valentin, E. & Olmstead, R.G. (2003). Phylogenetics of the Antillean Goetzeoideae (Solanaceae) and their relationships within the Solanaceae based on chloroplast and ITS DNA sequence data. Systematic. Botany 28, 452-460.
  • Smith, S.D. & Baum, D.A. (2006). Phylogenetics of the florally diverse Andean clade Iochrominae (Solanaceae). American Journal of Botany. J. Bot. 93, 1140-1153.
  • Spooner, D.M., R.G. van den Berg, A. Rodríguez, J. Bamberg, R.J. Hijmans, & S.I. Lara-Cabrera (2004). Wild potatoes (Solanum section Petota; Solanaceae) of North and Central America. Syst. Bot. Monog. 68: 1-209 + 9 plates.
  • Stehmann, J.R., Lorenz-Lemke, A.P., Freitas, L.B. & Semir, J. (2009). The genus Petunia. In: T. Gerats & J. Strommer (eds.). Petunia: evolutionary, developmental and physiological genetics, pp. 1-28. New York: Springer Sciene+Business Media.
  • Whalen, M.D. (1980). Conspectus of Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum. Gentes Herbarium 12: 179-282.

Trees of New Guinea

  • PBI Solanum Project. (2014). Solanaceae Source. (http://www.solanaceaesource.org/).
  • Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. (1982). Solanaceae Fl. Australia Volume 29. CSIRO.
  • Timothy M.A. Utteridge & Laura V.S. Jennings (2022). Trees of New Guinea. Timothy M. A. Utteridge and Laura V. S. Jennings (Eds) Kew Publishing. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook

  • D’Arcy, W. G. (1991). The Solanaceae since 1976, with a review of its biogeography. In: J. G. Hawkes, R. N. Lester, M. Nee & N. Estrada (eds), Solanaceae III: Taxonomy, Chemistry, Evolution. pp. 75–137. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • PBI Solanum Project. (2021). Solanaceae Source. www.solanaceaesource.org/.
  • Purdie, R. W., Symon, D. E. & Haegi, L. (1982). Solanaceae. Flora of Australia 29. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
  • Särkinen, T., Bohs, L., Olmstead, R. G. & Knapp, S. (2013). A phylogenetic framework for evolutionary study of the nightshades (Solanaceae): a dated 1000-tip tree. BMC Evol. Biol. 13: 214.
  • Zhang, Z., Lu, A. & D’Arcy, W. G. (1994). Solanaceae. In: Z. Y. Wu & P. H. Raven (eds), Flora of China 17: 300–332. Science Press, Beijing; Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • Flora of West Tropical Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
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  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Neotropikey

    • Milliken, W., Klitgard, B. and Baracat, A. (2009 onwards), Neotropikey - Interactive key and information resources for flowering plants of the Neotropics.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Trees of New Guinea

    • Trees of New Guinea
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook

    • The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook

    • The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0