Nicotiana acuminata

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

Manyflower tobacco
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Nicotiana
Species:
N. acuminata
Binomial name
Nicotiana acuminata
Synonyms[1]

Petunia acuminata Graham

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.

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]

References
  1. "Nicotiana acuminata (Graham) Hook. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  2. Dr. Graham (1828). "XXIV. Description of several New or Rare Plants which have flowered in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and chiefly in the Royal Botanic Garden, during the last three months". The Edinburgh new philosophical journal. 5: 371–372. Wikidata Q112259630.
  3. Hooker, W.J. (1829). "Nicotiana acuminata". Curtis's Botanical Magazine. 56: t. 2919.
  4. Darwin, Charles (1859). THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES (Reprint 2019 ed.). Fingerprintclassics. pp. 263–264. ISBN 9788172344887.


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