Nolana
Nolana confinis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Subfamily: Solanoideae
Tribe: Nolaneae
Genus: Nolana
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Species

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Nolana (Peruvian bell flower) is a genus of hard annual or perennial plants in the nightshade family. The genus is mostly native to Chile and Peru. Species in this genus, especially N. paradoxa, serve as a model system for studies on flower color.[1][2]

Classification

There are a number of synonyms for Nolana: Alibrexia, Aplocarya, Bargemontia, Dolia, Gubleria, Leloutrea, Neudorfia, Osteocarpus, Pachysolen, Periloba, Rayera, Sorema, Teganium, Tula, Velpeaulia, Walberia, and Zwingera.

Nolana is the only genus in the Solanaceae which has a fruit composed of mericarps, although its flower and other vegetative morphology is similar to other plants in this family. It seems to be most closely related to Lycium and Grabowskia.[3]

There are about 85[3] to 89 species.[4]

Selected species

References

  1. ↑ Stavenga, Doekele G.; Van Der Kooi, Casper J. (2016). "Coloration of the Chilean Bellflower, Nolana paradoxa, interpreted with a scattering and absorbing layer stack model". Planta. 243 (1): 171–181. doi:10.1007/s00425-015-2395-0. PMC 4698304. PMID 26369332.
  2. ↑ van der Kooi, Casper J.; Elzenga, J. Theo M.; Staal, Marten; Stavenga, Doekele G. (2016). "How to colour a flower: on the optical principles of flower coloration". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 283 (1830). doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.0429. PMC 4874715. PMID 27170723.
  3. 1 2 Dillon, M. O. (2005). "The Solanaceae of the lomas formations of coastal Peru and Chile" (PDF). Monographs in Systematic Botany: 131–56. S2CID 88507110. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-03-16.
  4. ↑ Dillon, M. O. and J. Wen. Phylogenetic Systematics of Nolana (Solanaceae) and Biogeographic Implications for the Atacama and Peruvian Deserts.

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