Nicotiana glauca
Graham Tree TobaccoErect, often spindly tall shrub or small tree to 6 m high, perennial, soft-wooded; branches glabrous, new growth and inflorescence very sparsely pubescent with simple hairs. Leaves ovate or elliptic, 2–13(–35) cm long, 0.5–4(–7) cm wide, apex acute or obtuse, base obtuse, glaucous, glabrous; petiole 1–6(–12) cm long. Inflorescences terminal, panicle-like, short, dense. Flowers on short indistinct pedicels; calyx tubular, 7–17 mm long, glabrous except for margins of teeth; corolla yellow, tube 20–40 mm long, 3–6 mm wide at apex of calyx, pubescent, limb 8–13 mm diam., lobes obtuse; stamens more or less equal, all inserted in lower half of corolla-tube, filaments 19–29 mm long. Capsule ellipsoid to suborbicular, 7–13 mm long; seeds broad-ovoid to reniform, 0.5–0.9 mm long, wrinkled or honeycombed. Flowers mainly spring (but throughout the year).
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, HSF, Strz. Also naturalised WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW. Native to Argentina. Widespread in drier inland parts of western Victoria often in open and disturbed sites.
Nicotiana x flindersiensis is a hybrid between Nicotiana glauca and N.suaveolens. An unnamed hybrid between N. glauca and N. velutina was collected in the Hattah Lakes area in 1994. Both appear to be sterile F1 hybrids.
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Solanaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 332–365. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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