Solanaceae: the potato family

Shrubs, herbs, woody vines, occasionally trees, glabrous or pubescent with simple, glandular, branched, or star-shaped hairs, sometimes with prickles. Lvs alternate or paired but not truly opposite, simple or lobed to pinnately compound; stipules absent. Infl composed of variously modified terminal cymes, often appearing axillary or outside axil, or flws solitary; bracts present or absent. Flws usu radially symmetrical (sometimes bilaterally symmetrical), usu bisexual; cal base and cor base tubular, apex usu 5-lobed; stam usu 5, fil attached on cor tube, alternating with cor lobes, anth opening by apical pores or lengthwise slits; ovary superior, 2- or 4-celled (rarely more), style 1, stigma truncate or pinhead-like, often 2-lobed. Frt a berry or 2-4-valved, dehiscent capsule.