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|accepted_name=Nicotiana sylvestris
|accepted_authority=Spegazzini
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gartenflora
|place=47: 131, fig. 38. 1898
|year=1898
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|common_names=South American tobacco
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|hierarchy=Solanaceae;Nicotiana;Nicotiana sylvestris
|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 sylvestris]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, [or soft-wooded small trees], from basal rosette that soon merges with cauline leaves. <b>Stems</b> single or multiple, stout, branches erect, 4–30 dm, viscid-pubescent. <b>Rosette</b> leaves sessile; blade elliptic, to 50 cm, base decurrent and often auriculate or clasping, surfaces viscid-pubescent. <b>Cauline</b> leaves sessile; proximal blades elliptic, distal elliptic to elliptic-ovate, decreasing in size distally, 20–50 cm, base auriculate, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces viscid-pubescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> branched panicles with congested branches, appearing moplike, leafy; flowering crepuscular. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.5–1.5 cm (nodding, flowers pendent). <b>Flowers</b>: calyx green, oblong or subglobose (somewhat twisted), 1–1.8 cm, viscid-pubescent, lobes erect, deltate to triangular, equal or nearly so, much shorter than tube; corolla white, straight or very slightly curved, 6–9 cm (excluding limb), minutely viscid-pubescent without, tube white, cylindric, straight or slightly curved, 2 cm × 1–2 mm, throat 40–70 mm, glabrous or minutely puberulent internally, ventricose and inflated in middle to distal 1/3 (often somewhat asymmetrically), narrowing toward apex with constriction at mouth, 5 mm diam., limb spreading, tips somewhat reflexed, white, stellate, 1.5–2 cm diam., lobes white, broadly triangular, acute apically; stamens inserted subequally at base of throat, included; filaments unequal, 4 longer, 4–7 cm, just reaching corolla mouth, 1 slightly shorter, 4–6 cm, pubescent at insertion point; style straight, just exceeding the 4 longer stamens, slightly exserted. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid, 1.5–1.8 cm. <b>Fruiting</b> calyces not tearing at sinuses, almost completely covering capsule. <b>Seeds</b> 0.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Disturbed areas, abandoned gardens.
|elevation=0–2000 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;South America (Argentina;Bolivia);introduced also in Europe (Germany;Sweden;United Kingdom).
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Nicotiana sylvestris is widely cultivated and has been recorded as escaping, self-sowing, and persisting in disturbed areas. Most herbarium specimens have been collected from gardens or greenhouses, but the ease with which the species self-sows means it is likely to become at least ephemerally naturalized in areas with little frost.</p>
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name=Nicotiana sylvestris
|authority=Spegazzini
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Solanaceae
|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Disturbed areas, abandoned gardens.
|elevation=0–2000 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;South America (Argentina;Bolivia);introduced also in Europe (Germany;Sweden;United Kingdom).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Gartenflora
|publication year=1898
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Nicotiana
|species=Nicotiana sylvestris
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