Identifying Characteristics of the Solanaceae Family

May 13, 2024 | by Bloom Code Studio

The plants are mostly annual herbs, rarely trees.
The leaves are simple, alternate in the vegetative parts but opposite near the inflorescence, exstipulate, reticulate.
Inflorescence is cymose type – mostly axillary or extra-axillary cyme, sometimes solitary or axillary.
Flowers are ebracteate, actinomorphic, complete, bisexual, pentamerous, hypogynous.
Calyx consists of five sepals, gamosepalous, persistant and often enlarged in fruit.
Corolla consists of five petals, gamopetalous, and of various shaped twisted or valvate aestivation.
Androecium consists of five stamens, polyandrous, epipetalous, alternate to petals, anthers dithecous, basifixed and introrse.
Gynoecium is bicarpellary, syncarpous, bilocular with many ovules on swollen placenta, axile placentation, ovary obliquely tilted, style long, stigma bilobed or capitate.
Fruit is a berry or a capsule.
Seeds is endospermic.

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