Nicotiana acuminata

Short description: Species of flowering plant

Manyflower tobacco

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Solanales
Family:  | Solanaceae
Genus:  | Nicotiana
Species:  |

N. acuminata

Binomial name
Nicotiana acuminata

(Graham) Hook.

Synonyms[1]

Petunia acuminata Graham

Nicotiana acuminata is a species of wild tobacco known by the English common name manyflower tobacco.[citation needed] It is native to Argentina and Chile but it is known on other continents, including North America and Australia , as an introduced species.[citation needed]

It is an annual herb exceeding a meter in maximum height. The leaf blades may be 25 centimeters long and are borne on petioles. The inflorescence bears several white or green-tinged flowers with tubular throats up to 4 centimeters long, their bases enclosed in green-striped sepals.[citation needed]

It was first described by Robert Graham in 1828 as Petunia acuminata,[2][1] but was transferred to the genus, Nicotiana in 1829 by William Jackson Hooker[1][3]

In On The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin mentions that N. acuminata is not a particularly distinct species, which is failed to fertilise or to be fertilised, by no less than eight other species of Nicotiana.[4][clarification needed]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Nicotiana acuminata (Graham) Hook. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:816838-1.
2. ↑ , Wikidata Q112259630
3. ↑ Hooker, W.J. (1829). "Nicotiana acuminata". Curtis's Botanical Magazine 56: t. 2919. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/486454.
4. ↑ Darwin, Charles (1859). THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES (Reprint 2019 ed.). Fingerprintclassics. pp. 263–264. ISBN 9788172344887.

## External links

* Jepson Manual Treatment: var. multiflora
* Photo gallery

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