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Site: MISIN Learn
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Solanaceae

Nightshade or Potato Family. Comprised of 102 genera and about 2,280 species, many of considerable economic importance as food and drug plants. Members are annual, biennial or perennial and are usually herbs, though some species grow as shrubs or small trees. Members of this family usually have regular flowers with five petals, alternate leaves, five stamens attached to the corolla tube, and a superior ovary containing many yellowish disc-shaped seeds.

Spike

An elongate inflorescence with sessile or barely stalked flowers arising from a central stalk.

Sporangia

Sac-like structures which store spores.

Spore

A small, usually single-celled reproductive body that is produced by non-flowering organisms including ferns and fungi.

Sporocarp

A specialized structure in aquatic ferns whose primary function is the production and release of spores.

Stamen

The male organ of a flower.

Stem

The plant axis that bears buds and shoots with leaves and, at its basal end, roots

Stipule

One of a pair of appendages at the base of a leaf.

Stolon

An elongate, creeping stem (above ground).

Stylet

A small style, especially a piercing mouthpart of an insect.