Brunfelsia grandiflora D.Don, Solanaceae

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Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Threat only at high elevations?  no

Common name(s): [more details]

English: largeflower brunfelsia

Habit:  tree

Description:  "Small glabrous tree, the leaves apically crowded or scattered on the flowering branchlets; petioles stout, 5-10 mm long; leaves subcoriaceous, oblong-elliptic, slightly narrowed to acute base, shortly and subacutely cuspidate, 1.5-2 dm long, 5-8 cm wide, the 5-7 slender lateral nerves and laxly reticulate veins somewhat conspicuous only beneath; bracts caducous; pedicels 1 cm long; calyx 1.5-2 cm long, the ovate teeth obtuse or mucronulate; corolla tube 3.5-4 cm long, the limb 3-5 cm across, the lobes subrotund" (Macbride, 1962).

Habitat/ecology:  (no habitat/ecology info known by PIER)

Propagation:  Seed?

Native range:  Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia (GRIN)

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Ecuador (Galápagos Islands) Santa Cruz Group	Santa Cruz Island	introduced cultivated	Charles Darwin Research Station (2005)

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Colombia Colombia	Colombia (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2008)
Ecuador (Mainland) Ecuador	Ecuador (Republic of) (continental)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2008)
Perú Perú	Perú (Republic of)	native	Macbride, J. Francis (1936) (p. 153)

Comments:  Reported as possibly an invasive plant in the Galápagos Islands per Charles Darwin Research Station.

Additional information:
Additional online information about Brunfelsia grandiflora is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Information about Brunfelsia grandiflora as a weed (worldwide references) may be available from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Taxonomic information about Brunfelsia grandiflora may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

Charles Darwin Research Station. 2005. CDRS Herbarium records.

Macbride, J. Francis. 1936. Flora of Peru. Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series, Vol. XIII. 1936-1971, 6 parts.

U. S. Government. 2006. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) (on-line resource).

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2008. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.