Solanaceae (so-lan-AY-see-ee) Iconic Features Leaves most often alternate and simple Saucer-, trumpet-, or tube-shaped flowers with pleated petals Flower parts in fives Fruit often a fleshy berry Description (Jepson) Eudicotyledons (eudicots) a major lineage of flowering plants including most plants traditionally described as dicots and generally characterized by 2 seed leaves (dicotyledon) Netted (reticulate) leaf venation Flower parts in fours and fives Pollen grains with 3 pores (tricolpate) Vascular bundles in stem arranged in a ring Taproot system Annual and perennial herbs to shrubs Leaves generally alternate (1 leaf at each junction with stem) and generally simple (not divided into leaflets) Flowers Bisexual and generally radially symmetric Saucer-, trumpet, or tube-shaped with pleated petals Flower parts in sets of five Anthers (pollen-producing part of the stamen/male structure) are often large and tightly packed around the pistil (female flower part) Ovary superior (above the attachment of other flower parts) Inflorescence (flower cluster) in many forms Fruit is a berry (a usually multi-seeded fruit with a fleshy ovary wall) or capsule (a dry, multi-chambered fruit that splits open at maturity) Notes Approximately 3,000 species worldwide, mostly in tropical regions Greatest diversity is found in South and Central America Family includes many important agricultural crops, including tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, and tobacco, as well as medicinal plants and ornamentals Many plants in this family, e.g
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