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<i>Nolana</i>

Nolana

Species of plant

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.[2][3]

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Classification

There are a number of synonyms for Nolana: Alibrexia, Alona, Aplocarya, Bargemontia, Dolia, Gubleria, Leloutrea, Neudorfia, Osteocarpus, Periloba, Rayera, Sorema, Teganium, Tula, Velpeaulia, Walkeria, and Zwingera.[1]

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.[4]

Species

Plants of the World Online Accepts 72 species, listed below.[1] Other sources range from 85[4] to 89 species.[5]

  • Nolana acuminata (Miers) Dunal
  • Nolana adansonii (Schult.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana aenigma M.O.Dillon, S.Leiva & Quip.
  • Nolana albescens (Phil.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana aplocaryoides (Gaudich.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana arenicola I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana arequipensis M.O.Dillon & Quip.
  • Nolana baccata (Lindl.) Dunal
  • Nolana balsamiflua (Gaudich.) Mesa
  • Nolana bombonensis Quip. & M.O.Dillon
  • Nolana callae Quip. & M.O.Dillon
  • Nolana carnosa (Lindl.) Miers ex Dunal
  • Nolana chancoana M.O.Dillon & Quip.
  • Nolana chapiensis M.O.Dillon & Quip.
  • Nolana clivicola (I.M.Johnst.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana coelestis (Lindl.) Miers ex Dunal
  • Nolana confinis (I.M.Johnst.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana crassulifolia Kunze ex Walp.
  • Nolana deflexa (I.M.Johnst.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana dianae M.O.Dillon
  • Nolana divaricata (Lindl.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana elegans (Phil.) Reiche
  • Nolana filifolia (Hook. & Arn.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana flaccida (Phil.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana foliosa (Phil.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana galapagensis (Christoph.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana gayana (Gaudich.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana glauca (I.M.Johnst.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana gracillima (I.M.Johnst.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana hoxeyi M.O.Dillon & Quip.
  • Nolana humifusa (Gouan) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana incana (Phil.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana inconspicua (I.M.Johnst.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana inflata Ruiz & Pav.
  • Nolana intonsa I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana jaffuelii I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana lachimbensis M.O.Dillon & Luebert
  • Nolana latipes I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana laxa (Miers) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana leptophylla (Miers) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana lezamae M.O.Dillon, S.Leiva & Quip.
  • Nolana linearifolia Phil.
  • Nolana lycioides I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana mariarosae Ferreyra
  • Nolana mollis (Phil.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana onoana M.O.Dillon & M.Nakaz.
  • Nolana paradoxa Lindl.
  • Nolana parviflora (Phil.) Phil.
  • Nolana patachensis J.Hepp & M.O.Dillon
  • Nolana peruviana (Gaudich.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana philippiana M.O.Dillon & Luebert
  • Nolana platyphylla (I.M.Johnst.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana polymorpha Gaudich.
  • Nolana pterocarpa Phil. ex Wettst.
  • Nolana quicachaensis Quip. & M.O.Dillon
  • Nolana ramosissima I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana reichei M.O.Dillon & Arancio
  • Nolana rhombifolia Martic. & Quezada
  • Nolana rostrata (Lindl.) Miers ex Dunal
  • Nolana rupicola Gaudich.
  • Nolana salsoloides (Lindl.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana samaensis M.O.Dillon & Quip.
  • Nolana scaposa Ferreyra
  • Nolana sedifolia Poepp.
  • Nolana sessiliflora Phil.
  • Nolana sphaerophylla (Phil.) Mesa ex M.O.Dillon
  • Nolana stenophylla I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana tarapacana (Phil.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana tocopillensis (I.M.Johnst.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana tricotiflora Quip. & M.O.Dillon
  • Nolana villosa (Phil.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Nolana werdermannii I.M.Johnst.

References

  1. [1]
    Nolana L. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
  2. [2]
    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.
  3. [3]
    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.
  4. [4]
    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.
  5. [5]
    Dillon, M. O. and J. Wen. Phylogenetic Systematics of Nolana (Solanaceae) and Biogeographic Implications for the Atacama and Peruvian Deserts.

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