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Unarmed herbs, shrubs or small trees. Inflorescence a terminal panicle-like cyme. Calyx 5-lobed, much shorter than the corolla tube, usually somewhat accrescent in fruit. Corolla white, yellow, pink, red or purplish; tubular with a short limb. Stamens 5; anthers included (in ours), dehiscing by longitudinal slits. Fruit a capsule with a large number of minute seeds; capsule enclosed by a persistent papery calyx. Derivation of name: after Jean Nicot, who introduced tobacco to France in the late 16th century. Worldwide: 67 species in America (mainly Andean S America and Mexico), S Pacific islands, Australia and one in Namibia. Mozambique: 0 cultivated taxa. |
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