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|accepted_name=Jaborosa
|accepted_authority=Jussieu
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl.,
|place=125. 1789
|year=1789
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|hierarchy=Solanaceae;Jaborosa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Solanaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Jaborosa]]</div></div>
|etymology=Arabic name for a species of mandrake
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial [annual, biennial], rhizomatous, glabrous [pubescent]. <b>Stems</b> prostrate to ascending, branched. <b>Leaves</b> alternate; blade margins entire or denticulate [lobed, pinnatisect, bipinnatisect]. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, solitary or fascicled flowers. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous; calyx ± accrescent, campanulate, lobes 5, as long as or longer than tube; corolla white [yellow or purple], radial, salverform [rotate, campanulate, urceolate, cylindric], lobes acute to acuminate, flaring to reflexed; stamens inserted centrally or distally on corolla tube, equal; anthers dorsifixed, ellipsoidal, dehiscing by longitudinal slits; ovary 2–5-carpellate; style filiform; stigma capitate or 2–5-lobed. <b>Fruits</b> berries, subglobose-compressed, juicy. <b>Seeds</b> globose-reniform. <b>x</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=South America.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 23 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Species of Jaborosa are sometimes cultivated as ornamentals, dating back to the mid-nineteenth century (J. D. Wilson 1851). Jaborosa is a source of withanolides, which may be useful as insecticides (J. C. Oberti 1998).</p>
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name=Jaborosa
|author=Michael A. Vincent
|authority=Jussieu
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
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|basionyms=
|family=Solanaceae
|distribution=South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. Pl.,
|publication year=1789
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Jaborosa
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