View source for Nicotiana clevelandii

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|accepted_name=Nicotiana clevelandii
|accepted_authority=A. Gray in A. Gray et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syn. Fl. N. Amer.
|place=2(1): 242. 1878
|year=1878
|other_info_on_pub=(as clevelandi)
}}
|common_names=Cleveland’s tobacco
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Nicotiana greeneana
|authority=Rose
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Solanaceae;Nicotiana;Nicotiana clevelandii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Solanaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Nicotiana]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Nicotiana clevelandii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, from basal rosette. <b>Stems</b> single or with few lateral branches (several robust basal branches on older plants), 2–6 dm, villous and viscid-pubescent. <b>Rosette</b> leaves: petiole length 1/8–1/2 blade; blade broadly elliptic to rhombic-ovate, 6–20 cm, surfaces softly viscid-pubescent. <b>Cauline</b> leaves sessile to short-petiolate; blade ovate, 1–6 cm, becoming smaller distally, (fleshy), apex acute, surfaces scabrous with persistent swollen bases of short, patent trichomes. <b>Inflorescences</b> unbranched, few-flowered, densely leafy; flowering crepuscular. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.2–0.5 cm. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx uniformly green with poorly developed membranous sinuses, 0.8–1 cm, viscid-pubescent, lobes subulate, unequal (4 as long as tube, 1 longer); corolla straight, 1.4–2 cm (excluding limb), minutely viscid-pubescent externally, tube white or tinged with purple externally, 0.3–0.4 cm × 1 mm, widening to throat 10–17 × 2–4 mm (oblique, often bent at junction of tube and throat), glabrous or minutely puberulent within, limb spreading, white, pentagonal to stellate, 0.6–0.8(–1) cm diam., lobes broadly triangular, unequal, acute; stamens inserted at base of throat, extending nearly to corolla mouth; filaments 1–1.5 cm, unequal, 1 much shorter (curved), glabrous; style straight, just exceeding 4 long stamens. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid, 0.4–0.6 cm. <b>Fruiting</b> calyces not tearing at sinuses, covering capsule. <b>Seeds</b> 0.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 48.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Feb–Jul.
|habitat=Sandy areas, dunes, sea cliffs, washes, desert slopes.
|elevation=0–500 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Mexico (Baja California;Baja California Sur;Sonora).
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name=Nicotiana clevelandii
|authority=A. Gray in A. Gray et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Nicotiana greeneana
|basionyms=
|family=Solanaceae
|phenology=Flowering Feb–Jul.
|habitat=Sandy areas, dunes, sea cliffs, washes, desert slopes.
|elevation=0–500 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Mexico (Baja California;Baja California Sur;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Syn. Fl. N. Amer.
|publication year=1878
|special status=
|source xml=
|genus=Nicotiana
|species=Nicotiana clevelandii
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