Grabowskia
Encyclopedia
Grabowskia is a genus
of flowering plant
s in the nightshade
family
, Solanaceae
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the nightshade
Solanum
Solanum, the nightshades, horsenettles and relatives, is a large and diverse genus of annual and perennial plants. They grow as forbs, vines, subshrubs, shrubs, and small trees, and often have attractive fruit and flowers. Many formerly independent genera like Lycopersicon or Cyphomandra are...
family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
, Solanaceae
Solanaceae
Solanaceae are a family of flowering plants that include a number of important agricultural crops as well as many toxic plants. The name of the family comes from the Latin Solanum "the nightshade plant", but the further etymology of that word is unclear...
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Selected species
- Grabowskia ameghinoi Speg.
- Grabowskia glauca I.M.Johnst.
- Grabowskia lindleyi Sendtn.
- Grabowskia megalosperma Speg.
- Grabowskia schizocalyx Dammer
- Grabowskia sodiroiGrabowskia sodiroiGrabowskia sodiroi is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador.-Source:* Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2004. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....
Bitter - Grabowskia spegazzinii Dusén
- Grabowskia duplicata Arn.