Nolana

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Solanales

Familia: Solanaceae
Subfamilia: Solanoideae
Tribus: Nolaneae
Genus: Nolana
Sectiones: N. sect. Alona – N. sect. Nolana

Species: (80-90 spp.) N. acuminata – N. adansonii – N. albescens – N. aplocaryoides – N. arenicola – N. arequipensis – N. aticoana – N. baccata – N. balsamiflua – N. carnosa – N. cerrateana – N. chancoana – N. chapiensis – N. clivicola – N. coelestis – N. confinis – N. coronata – N. crassulifolia – N. diffusa – N. divaricata – N. elegans – N. filifolia – N. flaccida – N. galapagensis – N. gayana – N. glauca – N. gracillima – N. humifusa – N. incana – N. inflata – N. intonsa – N. ivaniana – N. johnstonii – N. laxa – N. leptophylla – N. lezamae – N. linearifolia – N. lycioides – N. mollis – N. onoana – N. pallida – N. pallidula – N. paradoxa – N. parviflora – N. peruviana – N. pilosa – N. plicata – N. pterocarpa – N. ramosissima – N. revoluta – N. rostrata – N. rupicola – N. salsoloides – N. scaposa – N. sedifolia – N. sessiliflora – N. spathulata – N. spergularioides – N. sphaerophylla – N. stenophylla – N. tarapacana – N. thinophila – N. tocopillensis – N. tomentella – N. tovariana – N. urubambae – N. villosa – N. volcanica – N. weissiana – N. werdermannii – N. willeana
Name

Nolana L.f., Decas Prima Pl. Rar. Horti. Upsal. t. 2. 1762.
Type species: Nolana prostrata L.f.

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Alona Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 30: ad t. 46. 1844.
Type species: Alona coelestis Lindl.
Dolia Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 30: ad t. 46. 1844.
Type species: Dolia vermiculata Lindl.
Neudorfia Adans., Fam. 2: 219, 582. 1763.
Type species: Atropa humifusa Gouan
Walkeria Mill. ex Ehret, Philos. Trans. 53: 130. 1764.
Type species: Atropa humifusa Gouan
Zwingera Hofer, Acta Helv. Phys.-Math. 5: 267. 1762.
Type species: Zwingera humifusa (Gouan) Hofer

References

Linnaeus, C. (filius) 1762. Decas Prima Pl. Rar. Horti. Upsal. t. 2.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Nolana in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.

Nolana (Chilean bell flower) is a genus of hard annual or perennial plants in the nightshade family. The genus is mostly native to Chile and Peru. Species in this genus, especially N. paradoxa, serve as a model system for studies on flower color.[1][2]
Classification

There are a number of synonyms for Nolana: Alibrexia, Aplocarya, Bargemontia, Dolia, Gubleria, Leloutrea, Neudorfia, Osteocarpus, Pachysolen, Periloba, Rayera, Sorema, Teganium, Tula, Velpeaulia, Walberia, and Zwingera.

Nolana is the only genus in the Solanaceae which has a fruit composed of mericarps, although its flower and other vegetative morphology is similar to other plants in this family. It seems to be most closely related to Lycium and Grabowskia.[3]

There are about 85[3] to 89 species.[4]
Selected species

Nolana acuminata
Nolana atriplicifolia
Nolana crassulifolia
Nolana galapagensis
Nolana humifusa
Nolana prostrata
Nolana rupicola
Nolana sedifolia
Nolana tenella
Nolana paradoxa

References

Stavenga, D. G., van der Kooi, C.J. (2016) Coloration of the Chilean Bellflower, Nolana paradoxa, interpreted with a scattering and absorbing layer stack model Planta 243:171-181
van der Kooi, C. J. et al. (2016). How to colour a flower: on the optical principles of flower coloration Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: 283
Dillon, M. O. (2005). The Solanaceae of the Lomas formations of coastal Peru and Chile. Monographs in Systematic Botany 131-56.
Dillon, M. O. and J. Wen. Phylogenetic Systematics of Nolana (Solanaceae) and Biogeographic Implications for the Atacama and Peruvian Deserts.