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.

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

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

The male organ of a flower.

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

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

An elongate, creeping stem (above ground).

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