Flora of North America species comparison

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Jaborosa

jaborosa
Habit Herbs, perennial [annual, biennial], rhizomatous, glabrous [pubescent].
Stems

prostrate to ascending, branched.
Leaves

alternate;

blade margins entire or denticulate [lobed, pinnatisect, bipinnatisect].
Inflorescences

axillary, solitary or fascicled flowers.
Flowers

5-merous;

calyx ± accrescent, campanulate, lobes 5, as long as or longer than tube;

corolla white [yellow or purple], radial, salverform [rotate, campanulate, urceolate, cylindric], lobes acute to acuminate, flaring to reflexed;

stamens inserted centrally or distally on corolla tube, equal;

anthers dorsifixed, ellipsoidal, dehiscing by longitudinal slits;

ovary 2–5-carpellate;

style filiform;

stigma capitate or 2–5-lobed.
Fruits

berries, subglobose-compressed, juicy.
Seeds

globose-reniform.
x

= 12.

Jaborosa
Distribution
from USDA
South America [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 23 (1 in the flora).

Species of Jaborosa are sometimes cultivated as ornamentals, dating back to the mid-nineteenth century (J. D. Wilson 1851). Jaborosa is a source of withanolides, which may be useful as insecticides (J. C. Oberti 1998).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 14. Author: Michael A. Vincent.
Parent taxa Solanaceae
Subordinate taxa
J. integrifolia
Name authority Jussieu: Gen. Pl., 125. (1789)
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