Cestroideae (syn. Browallioideae) is a subfamily of the plant family
Solanaceae
The Solanaceae , or nightshades, are a family of flowering plants that ranges from annual and perennial herbs to vines, lianas, epiphytes, shrubs, and trees, and includes a number of agricultural crops, medicinal plants, spices, weeds, and o ...
, the nightshades.
It currently contains the three tribes and seven genera, as follows:
*Browallieae
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Browallia
''Browallia'' is a small genus of seven species of flowering plants (mostly annuals though occasionally shrubs or ephemerophytes) belonging to the nightshade family Solanaceae. Armando T. Hunziker: The Genera of Solanaceae. A.R.G. Gantner Verl ...
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Streptosolen
''Streptosolen'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae. It is closely related to the genus Browallia, within which it was originally placed. The single species, ''Streptosolen jamesonii'', the marmalade bush or fire ...
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Sessea
''Sessea'' is a genus of 19 accepted species of shrubs, small trees and climbers belonging to the subfamily Cestroideae of the plant family Solanaceae. The flowers of ''Sessea'' are so similar to those of '' Cestrum'' that the genera cannot usua ...
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Reyesia
''Reyesia'' is a small genus of four species of flowering plants belonging to the subfamily Cestroideae of the nightshade family Solanaceae. It is closely related to the genus ''Salpiglossis'', which provides the ornamental species ''Salpiglossi ...
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Salpiglossis
''Salpiglossis'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the subfamily Cestroideae of family Solanaceae. It is closely related to the genus ''Reyesia'', with which it makes up the tribe Salpiglossideae. Species in the genus ''Salpiglossis' ...
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With the (current) exceptions of the genera ''Sessea'' and ''Reyesia'', the subfamily furnishes many colourful
garden plants
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of considerable horticultural merit.
[ RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. .]
Gallery
File:IMG 7246-Browallia speciosa.jpg, ''Browallia speciosa
''Browallia speciosa'' is a blue-violet tender perennial usually grown as an annual flowering plant also called the amethyst flower or bush violet. It is much used as a garden ornamental.
Use in Colombian folk medicine
The Ingano of Mocoa in ...
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File:Streptosolen closeup.jpg, ''Streptosolen jamesonii
''Streptosolen'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae. It is closely related to the genus Browallia, within which it was originally placed. The single species, ''Streptosolen jamesonii'', the marmalade bush or fire b ...
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File:Cestrum aurantiacum 3.jpg, ''Cestrum aurantiacum
''Cestrum aurantiacum'' (orange cestrum, " orange jessamine", orange-flowering jessamine, and yellow cestrum; syn. ''Capraria lanceolata'' L.f.) is native to North and South America. This plant is used as an ornamental plant, and it is a poisono ...
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File:Cestrum elegans (7).jpg, '' Cestrum elegans'' flowers in extreme close-up.
File:Vestia foetida (14096215513).jpg, ''Vestia foetida
''Vestia'' is a monotypic genusLas Penas, M. L., et al. (2006)Karyotypes of some species of ''Cestrum'', ''Sessea'', and ''Vestia'' (tribe Cestreae, Solanaceae).''Caryologia'' 59(2) 131-37. of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae containi ...
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File:Salpiglossis sinuata flower side view.jpg, ''Salpiglossis sinuata
''Salpiglossis sinuata'', the painted tongue, scalloped tube tongue, velvet trumpet flower, palito amargo ( Spanish : ''bitter little stick'' - from the extreme bitterness of its leaves) or panza de burro
( Spanish : ''donkey's paunch'' ), is ...
'' flower in profile.
File:Salpiglossis bloom at Allan Gardens, Toronto.jpg, ''Salpiglossis sinuata
''Salpiglossis sinuata'', the painted tongue, scalloped tube tongue, velvet trumpet flower, palito amargo ( Spanish : ''bitter little stick'' - from the extreme bitterness of its leaves) or panza de burro
( Spanish : ''donkey's paunch'' ), is ...
'' close up of single flower,showing characteristic paunch-like reticulation.
File:Historia fisica y politica de Chile segun documentos adquiridos en esta republica durante doce años de residencia en ella y publicada bajo los auspicios del supremo gobierno (8280168809).jpg, ''Reyesia chilensis
''Reyesia'' is a small genus of four species of flowering plants belonging to the subfamily Cestroideae of the nightshade family Solanaceae. It is closely related to the genus '' Salpiglossis'', which provides the ornamental species '' Salpiglo ...
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References
Asterid subfamilies
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