Lycianthes

Taxobox

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image_caption = Blue Potato Bush ("Lycianthes rantonnei")
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Solanales
familia = Solanaceae
genus = "Lycianthes"
genus_authority =
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = About 200, see text

"Lycianthes" is a genus of plants from the nightshade family (Solanaceae), found in both the Old World and the New World, but predominantly in the latter. It contains roughly 200 species, mostly from tropical America, with 35-40 species in Asia and the Pacific.

"Lycianthes" is apparently closely related to the chili and bell peppers ("Capsicum"). However, it was long confused with the nightshades ("Solanum"), and several little-known "Solanum" species presumably belong here.Solanaceae Source [2008] ]

Species include:
* "Lycianthes australis" (C.V.Morton) Hunz. & Barboza
* "Lycianthes biflora" (Lour.) Bitter
* "Lycianthes denticulata" (Blume) Bitter
* "Lycianthes hypochrysea"
* "Lycianthes laevis" (Dunal) Bitter
* "Lycianthes lycioides" (L.) Hassl.
* "Lycianthes mociniana" (Dunal) Bitter – "tlanochtle" (Nahuatl)
* "Lycianthes rantonnei" (Carrière) Bitter – Blue Potato Bush
* "Lycianthes rimbachii"
* "Lycianthes shanesii" (F.Muell.) A.R.Bean
* ""Solanum chrysophyllum""
* ""Solanum lanuginosum""
* ""Solanum loxense""
* ""Solanum mucronatum"" – "pepino"

Other "Solanum" taxa of unknown identity but presumably belonging into "Lycianthes" include "S. ciliatum" Blume ex Miq., "S. corniculatum" Hiern, "S. retrofractum" var. "acuminatum", "S. violaceum" Blume, "S. violifolium" f. "typicum", "S. virgatum" notst "ß albiflorum", "S. uniflorum" Lag. and "S. uniflorum" var. "berterianum".

ee also

* Nonochton

Footnotes

References

* [2008] : [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/solanaceaesource PBI "Solanum": A worldwide treatment] . Retrieved 2008-OCT-01.