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|accepted_name=Browallia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 631. 1753
|year=1753
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Solanaceae;Browallia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Solanaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Browallia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For John Browall, 1707–1755, Bishop of Åbo, Sweden, and friend of Linnaeus
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or perennial, or shrubs, taprooted or with fibrous roots, hairs simple or with multicellular glandular heads. <b>Stems</b> erect to decumbent and sprawling, branched. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, petiolate or sessile; blade simple, margins entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary and terminal, solitary flowers or racemoid. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, bilaterally symmetric; calyx accrescent, tubular-campanulate, lobes 5, triangular, as long as or slightly longer than capsule, not inflated; corolla white, creamy white to yellowish, blue, or violet, bilateral (sometimes appearing 4-parted by fusion of abaxial 2 lobes), salverform, lobes spreading or reflexed, rounded; stamens 4, unequal, (abaxial 2 with 2 fertile thecae each, adaxial 2 with 1 fertile and 1 abortive theca each), sometimes also with 5th smaller stamen, abaxial 2 inserted in distal 1/2 of corolla tube, adaxial 2 at mouth of corolla; anthers basifixed, spheric or subspheric, dehiscing by longitudinal slits; ovary 2-carpellate; style proximally slender, distally sigmoidally curved and broadened, (wrinkled); stigma capitate-bilobed. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, ovoid, (2-valved). <b>Seeds</b> (4–50), prismatic or concave abaxially and convex adaxially. <b>x</b> = 10, 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=Arizona;Mexico;Central America;South America;introduced in Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 5 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>J. F. Macbride (1962) commented on the difficulty of circumscribing morphological species in Browallia, leading him to question the genetic status and taxonomy of species in the genus. He noted that the annuals, especially, had weedy tendencies whose considerable morphological diversity appeared to be influenced by environmental conditions. Plants of some species grown in the garden from wild-collected seed exhibit characteristics found in the widely cultivated B. americana after a single generation.</p>
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==Key==
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|1
|Plants glabrous or viscid-pubescent; corollas blue or violet with white or yellow center or entirely white, limb spreading; seeds to 1 mm, prismatic; escaped garden plants.
|[[Browallia americana|Browallia americana]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Plants scabrous, hairs eglandular; corollas creamy white to yellowish, limb reflexed; seeds 1–1.3 mm, concave abaxially and convex adaxially; native and local in Arizona.
|[[Browallia eludens|Browallia eludens]]
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name=Browallia
|author=Philip D. Jenkins†
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Solanaceae
|distribution=Arizona;Mexico;Central America;South America;introduced in Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
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|genus=Browallia
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