SOLANACEAE Juss.
Family composed of about 115 genera and about 2,680 species of trees, shrubs, lianas and herbaceous plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution. In North Africa it is represented by 10 genera, among which 7 have herbaceous, annual or perennial species. In the other 3 genera there are various woody, shrubby or lianescent species.
Key to genera
1 Leaves entire, wide, oval-lanceolate or suborbicular. Fruit included in a very accrescent calyx Withania
1 Leaves variable. Fruit free, clearly visible, not surrounded by the calyx 2
2 Shrubs strongly woody and spiny. Leaves entire, linear, linear-lanceolate or spatulate Lycium
2 Herbaceous plants, shrubs or lianescent, with lobed leaves Solanum
Updated by: B. Valdés & J. Charco.