Solanaceae

• Capsicum chinense
• Iochroma unidentified
• Streptosolen jamesonii
• Withania somnifera

Subfamily Browallioideae

• Cestrum alternifolium
• Cestrum nocturnum

Subfamily Nicotianoideae

• Nicotiana glauca

Subfamily Petunioideae

• Brunfelsia pauciflora var. calycina
• Brunfelsia unidentifed

Subfamily Solanoideae

• Brugmansia aurea W/C
• Brugmansia suaveolens
• Brugmansia versicolor
• Cyphomandra betacea
• Lycianthes unidentified
• Lycium barbarum
• Lycium carolinianum
• Mandragora officinarum
• Solandra longiflora
• Solandra maxima
• Solanum appendiculatum
• Solanum asarifolium
• Solanum drymophilum
• Solanum jasminoides
• Solanum quitoense
• Solanum quitoense
• Solanum seaforthianum
• Solanum wendlandii

• Query IPNI
• Common Name: 'Culebra'
• Family: Solanaceae Juss.

• Country of Origin: Colombia - high and geographically isolated Indian village of Sibundoy
• Habitat: forested slopes of the mountains to the south of the valley of Sibundoy

• Description: Originally classified as Methysticodendron amesianum by R.E. Schultes in 1955 (Bot. Mus. Leaf., 17, 1, 1955)

  Description of Methysticodendron Amesianum- R. E. Schultes in Bot. Mus Leafl. Harvard Univ. 17 (1955) 2.

  Tree up to 25 feet tall, with short, densely leafy branches. Leaves membranaceous, dark green, narrowly linear-ligulate, apically acuminate, basally gradually attenuate (very often without distinct petiole), marginally commonly subundulate or undulate, in adult state 20-26 cm long, 1.3-2.0 cm wide; central nerve strong, beneath strongly elevated, secondary nerves almost parallel, somewhat conspicuous, towards margin arcuateanastomosing; both surfaces minutely and irregularly (near veins denser) pilose.

  Flowers up to 28 (mostly more or less 23) cm long apically 10-13 cm in diameter in bud, at dusk and night very strongly and sweetly fragant. Calyx spathaceous, green, papyraceous or membranaceous, 2- to 5-parted, with acute teeth, tubiform for half its length, 3/5 as long as corolla (up to 13 cm long), both surfaces very minutely and irregularly pilose. Corolla divided for 3/5-4/5 its length, with lobes usually 5 (but abnormally 4 or 6), membranaceous, white, spreading, spathulate or almost spathulately rhombiform, apically long acuminate, circinnate, entire, upper half strongly inflexed, 14-16 cm long, towards apex of tube usually 6mm. (but in widest part 2.5-3.3 cm) wide, near base very remotely and irregularly pilose within and without, with 3 conspicuous, strongly parallel veins; tube rather densely white-pilose within.

  Stamens usually 5, shorter than corolla lobes; with terete filaments, more or less 5 cm long, 2 mm in diameter at base, apically strongly twisted and lightly bent, pilose except at apex; anthers yellow, 2.7-3 cm long, 3-4 mm in diameter. Ovary sub-cylindric, conspicuously 3-sulcate, glabrous, up to 1.5 cm long, 0.5 cm in diameter, gradually produced into styles. Styles glabrous, up to more or less 9 cm long, 2.5 mm in diameter, apically slightly clavellate and strongly flattened, with stigmatic tissue on very apex and along adges up to 1-1.5 cm in decurrent form, black (when dry) and papillose. Appendix (rudimentary style?) like styles arising from central part of ovary, up to 5.5 cm long, accompanied by 1 or 2 subclavellate, fleshy appendices 2-5 mm long.