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Flora
Entry for NICOTIANA Tabacum Linn. [family SOLANACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 87, (1904) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
NICOTIANA TabacumLinn. [family SOLANACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 180;—Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 557; Bentl. & Trim. Med. Pl. t. 191; Comes, Monogr. Nicot. 7.
Information
a robust annual, up to 6 ft. high; stem erect, viscid; leaves ovate-lanceolate or ovate, the lower up to 2 ft. long and shortly petioled, the upper much smaller, sessile and more or less amplexicaul, entire, acute, sometimes undulate, viscid on both surfaces; panicle terminal; calyx ovoid, viscid outside, divided nearly halfway down; lobes 5, narrowly lanceolate; corolla obconical, pink, about 1 1/2 in. long, viscid outside; lobes short, broadly triangular, acute; stamens inserted near the base of the corolla, usually included; ovary conical; style about as long as the stamens; capsule about 9 lin. long. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; without precise locality, Cooper, 3111!SOUTH AFRICA without locality; var. α, ex Comes, var. β, ex Dunal.