- Family:
- Solanaceae Juss.
Nierembergia Ruiz & Pav.

[FZ]
Flora Zambesiaca. Vol. 8, Part 4. Solanaceae. Gonçalves AE. 2005
- Morphology General
- Herbs or sometimes small shrubs, prostrate to erect, occasionally forming mats, ± glabrous to densely clothed with eglandular and also glandular, sometimes viscid hairs; rhizomatous structures sometimes present
- Morphology Branches
- Branches herbaceous to ± woody
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers often showy, actinomorphic or slightly zygomorphic Flowers often showy, actinomorphic or slightly zygomorphic.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx tubular to campanulate, ± curved, 10-ribbed, ± deeply 5-lobed; lobes slightly unequal, narrow, ± linear or lanceolate, acuminate, spreading, with valvate aestivation; in fruit somewhat enlarged, enclosing it or not Calyx tubular to campanulate, ± curved, 10-ribbed, ± deeply 5-lobed; lobes slightly unequal, narrow, ± linear or lanceolate, acuminate, spreading, with valvate aestivation; in fruit somewhat enlarged, enclosing it or not.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla white with a yellow or purple centre, or variously coloured from pink to purple or violet, sometimes bluish, infundibuliform or salviform; tube ± long, slender, nearly or quite straight, the mouth narrow; limb abruptly expanded, broadly campanulate, saucer-shaped or funnel-shaped, often plicate, spreading, slightly unequally 5-lobed; lobes short, broad, obtuse or rounded, with cochlear aestivation Corolla white with a yellow or purple centre, or variously coloured from pink to purple or violet, sometimes bluish, infundibuliform or salviform; tube ± long, slender, nearly or quite straight, the mouth narrow; limb abruptly expanded, broadly campanulate, saucer-shaped or funnel-shaped, often plicate, spreading, slightly unequally 5-lobed; lobes short, broad, obtuse or rounded, with cochlear aestivation.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 5, ± equal or unequal, often the uppermost shorter than the other 4 or didynamous, sometimes 4 stamens and 1 staminode, inserted in the corolla tube usually in the distal part, sometimes on the throat, exserted; filaments ± connate at the base forming a tube surrounding the style, free upwards, slender but somewhat expanded towards the base, curved at the apex, ± glabrous or puberulous, sometimes glandular; anthers all fertile or elsewhere one of them occasionally sterile, variously sized, almost circular, elliptic or ovate in outline, straight or slightly curved, embraced by the stigma in bud, attached on the lower part of the back, extrorse, the thecae separated from each other one-third or more of their length at the lower end, dehiscing by longitudinal slits
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Disc
- Disk usually fleshy, cupular or annular, adnate to and surrounding the basal part of the ovary, entire or crenulate, occasionally lacking Disk usually fleshy, cupular or annular, adnate to and surrounding the basal part of the ovary, entire or crenulate, occasionally lacking.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
- Ovary stalked to sessile, 2-locular; ovules numerous in each locule on an enlarged placenta adnate to the dorsal line of the dissepiment, anatropous.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Style
- Style slender.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Stigma
- Stigma reniform, usually enlarged into a laminar, 2-lamellate or crescent-shaped process between or surmounting and usually surrounding the anthers, exserted
- Distribution
- A genus allied to Petunia, with 23 species distributed in warm and temperate regions of both hemispheres, mostly centred in South America from Colombia southwards to Chile and Argentina (reaching northern Patagonia), but mainly in Argentina. One species,
- Morphology General Habit
- Herbs or sometimes small shrubs, prostrate to erect, occasionally forming mats, ± glabrous to densely clothed with eglandular and also glandular, sometimes viscid hairs; rhizomatous structures sometimes present.
- Morphology Stem
- Branches herbaceous to ± woody.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves solitary, alternate, occasionally in pairs and appearing opposite, sessile to long-petiolate, entire; minor leaves absent. Leaves solitary, alternate, occasionally in pairs and appearing opposite, sessile to long-petiolate, entire; minor leaves absent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescences consisting of one or occasionally several flowers in terminal or lateral, subpaniculiform, racemiform or subspiciform cymes; pedicels slender, articulated at the base; bracts single, foliaceous. Inflorescences consisting of one or occasionally several flowers in terminal or lateral, subpaniculiform, racemiform or subspiciform cymes; pedicels slender, articulated at the base; bracts single, foliaceous
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium
- Stamens 5, ± equal or unequal, often the uppermost shorter than the other 4 or didynamous, sometimes 4 stamens and 1 staminode, inserted in the corolla tube usually in the distal part, sometimes on the throat, exserted; filaments ± connate at the base forming a tube surrounding the style, free upwards, slender but somewhat expanded towards the base, curved at the apex, ± glabrous or puberulous, sometimes glandular; anthers all fertile or elsewhere one of them occasionally sterile, variously sized, almost circular, elliptic or ovate in outline, straight or slightly curved, embraced by the stigma in bud, attached on the lower part of the back, extrorse, the thecae separated from each other one-third or more of their length at the lower end, dehiscing by longitudinal slits.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary stalked to sessile, 2-locular; ovules numerous in each locule on an enlarged placenta adnate to the dorsal line of the dissepiment, anatropous; style slender; stigma reniform, usually enlarged into a laminar, 2-lamellate or crescent-shaped process between or surmounting and usually surrounding the anthers, exserted.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit capsular, ovoid, membranous, 2-locular, with a central placenta ultimately detaching at the top, apically dehiscing by 2 septicidal slits, the 2 dry valves often 2-fid. Fruit capsular, ovoid, membranous, 2-locular, with a central placenta ultimately detaching at the top, apically dehiscing by 2 septicidal slits, the 2 dry valves often 2-fid
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds numerous, minute, scarcely compressed, 3-gonous, ovate or ± elliptic in outline; testa somewhat leathery; embryo subterete, straight or slightly curved, in the dorsal part of the fleshy endosperm; cotyledons usually broad, subcompressed. Seeds numerous, minute, scarcely compressed, 3-gonous, ovate or ± elliptic in outline; testa somewhat leathery; embryo subterete, straight or slightly curved, in the dorsal part of the fleshy endosperm; cotyledons usually broad, subcompressed
Native to:
Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Chile Central, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southwest, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay
Introduced into:
Botswana, Cape Provinces, Free State, Mozambique, New South Wales, Northern Provinces, Venezuela, Zimbabwe
- Nierembergia andina Millán
- Nierembergia angustifolia Kunth
- Nierembergia aristata D.Don
- Nierembergia boliviana Millán
- Nierembergia browallioides Griseb.
- Nierembergia calycina Hook.
- Nierembergia ericoides Miers
- Nierembergia espinosae Steyerm.
- Nierembergia graveolens A.St.-Hil.
- Nierembergia hatschbachii A.A.Cocucci & Hunz.
- Nierembergia linariifolia Graham
- Nierembergia micrantha Cabrera
- Nierembergia pinifolia Miers
- Nierembergia pulchella Gillies ex Miers
- Nierembergia repens Ruiz & Pav.
- Nierembergia rigida Miers
- Nierembergia riograndensis Hunz. & A.A.Cocucci
- Nierembergia rivularis Miers
- Nierembergia scoparia Sendtn.
- Nierembergia spathulata Kunth
- Nierembergia tandilensis (Kuntze) Cabrera
- Nierembergia tucumanensis Millán
- Nierembergia veitchii Berk. ex Hook.
Nierembergia Ruiz & Pav. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Galeotti, H.G. [1478], Mexico | K000063610 | No |
First published in Fl. Peruv. Prodr.: 23 (1794)
Accepted by
- Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Literature
Flora Zambesiaca
- Darwiniana 5: 487–547 (1941).
- Fl. Peruv. Prodr.: 23 (1794).
- Hunziker, Gen. Solanacearum: 60 (2001).
- Millán in Darwiniana 5: 487–547 (1941).
- Nierembergia Ruiz & Pav., Fl. Peruv. Prodr.: 23 (1794).
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