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Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Sweet

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Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Sweet, Hort. Suburb. Lond. 41 (1818)
Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Sweet

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Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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(Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Sweet
Willd.
Sweet
1818
41
ICN
species
Brugmansia suaveolens

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suaveolens

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Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Sweet

Large puberulent, soft-wooded shrub to 2.5 m high. Petiole to c. 15 cm long. Lamina 5-20-(25) × 3-12 cm on adult shoots, larger on some vegetative shoots, ovate-oblong, entire, not sinuate, becoming glabrate; base often asymmetric; apex acute or mucronate. Fls pendent or inclined obliquely downwards, very fragrant at night; pedicels glabrate or glabrous. Calyx 8-12 cm long; lobes 5, subequal and not spathaceous, not splitting, acute. Corolla 27-33 cm long (excluding attenuate lobe apices 1-3 cm long), single, white; tube cylindric and scarcely widening in lower ?-1/2, otherwise funnelform. Filaments hairy in lower part; anthers 2.5-3 cm long. Fr. not seen.

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Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Sweet
Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Bercht. & J.Presl
Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Sweet
Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Sweet
Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Bercht. & J.Presl
Datura suaveolens Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Sweet

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Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
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Subtropicals, Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 20

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Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Sweet
Cook Islands
Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Sweet
Cook Islands
Rarotonga
Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Sweet
Cook Islands
Suwarrow
Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Sweet
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Sweet
Norfolk Island

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editorial
Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Bercht. & J.Presl 1823 is superfl.; Sweet published the combination Brugmansia suaveolens validly in 1818 in Hort. Suburb. Lond. page 41 by putting “W. en.” behind this combination referring to Willdenow's Enum. Pl. where the basionym Datura suaveolens was published by Humb. & Bonpl.

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1 January 2000
1 December 2022
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