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|accepted_name=Nicandra
|accepted_authority=Adanson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fam. Pl.
|place=2: 219, 582. 1763
|year=1763
|other_info_on_pub=name conserved
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|common_names=Apple of Peru;shoo-fly plant
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|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|hierarchy=Solanaceae;Nicandra
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Solanaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Nicandra]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Nicander of Colophon, second century B.C.E., Greek physician and poet known for his works on toxicology and natural history
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, hairs simple, mostly eglandular, taproot slender, somewhat fibrous. <b>Stems</b> branched. <b>Leaves</b> alternate; blade simple or margins slightly lobed. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, solitary flowers. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous; calyx accrescent, campanulate, incised 2/3 its length, lobes 5, bases sagittate to cordate; corolla light purple to nearly white, radial, broadly campanulate, shallowly incised; stamens inserted at base of corolla tube, equal; anthers basifixed, oblong, dehiscing by longitudinal slits; ovary 3–5-carpellate; style filiform; stigma capitate-lobed. <b>Fruits</b> berries, globose, dry. <b>Seeds</b> discoidal to reniform. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=South America;introduced also in Mexico;Central America;Africa;Pacific Islands.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 3 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Nicandra has been considered a close relative of Physalis. The resemblance is superficial; current molecular data neither place this genus with Physalis and its relatives nor indicate a particularly close relationship to any other genus. Although Nicandra comes out near Exodeconus Rafinesque and Solandra Swartz (R. G. Olmstead et al. 2008), it is morphologically distinct; A. T. Hunziker (2001) left it in its own tribe (the Nicandreae Lowe).</p>
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name=Nicandra
|author=Maggie Whitson
|authority=Adanson
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Solanaceae
|distribution=South America;introduced also in Mexico;Central America;Africa;Pacific Islands.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Fam. Pl.
|publication year=1763
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Nicandra
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