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Taxon: Brunfelsia americana L.

Genus: Brunfelsia
Family: Solanaceae subfamily: Petunioideae.
Nomen number: 8006
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:191. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 24-Mar-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 24-Mar-2004
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • lady-of-the-night   (Source: Dict Gard )

Economic importance:


Distributional range:

Native:
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Caribbean: Dominica; Dominican Republic [e.]; Guadeloupe; Martinique; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; Virgin Islands (British); Virgin Islands (U.S.)
Other:
  • naturalized elsewhere

References:

  • Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969 (F CubaLeon)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3) 184.
  • Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis. (F PR)
  • Plowman, T. C. et al. 1995. A revision of the South American species of Brunfelsia (Solanaceae). Fieldiana, Bot. 39:132.
  • Plowman, T. 1979. The genus Brunsfelsia: a conspectus of the taxonomy and biogeography. In: Hawkes, J. G. et al., eds., The biology and taxonomy of the Solanacae. (Biol Solan) 479.
More:

Check other databases for Brunfelsia americana L.:

  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.
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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?8006 (21 November 2009)

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