Brugmansia Pers.

Unarmed trees or shrubs, pubescence of mostly simple, sometimes viscid hairs; twigs mostly stout. Leaves simple and entire or repand, petiolate, mostly large. Flowers solitary (sometimes aggregated) on erect or pendulous pedicels, showy, mostly 5-merous; calyx tubular, sometimes inflated or strongly angled and sometimes appressed to the corolla tube, prefloration complete and floral egress by 5 or more valvate teeth usually dehiscing irregularly to form one or more spathaceous lobes; corolla funnelform, tubiform or almost tubular, mostly large, variously colored, flaccid and succulent, glabrous or variously pubescent, the limb sinuate margined or 5-toothed, sometimes opening or scented nocturnally; stamens equal, the filaments inserted near the top of the tube, some-times geniculate, variously pubescent, the anthers linear, basifixed, dehiscing longitudinally, coherent or free; ovary conical, 2-loculed with many ovules on an enlarged placenta, the stigma elongate and exceeding the anthers, the stigma variously shaped but mostly small and 2-lobed. Fruit an unarmed, spheroidal or elongate, woody, indehiscent capsule, seeds large and wedge shaped, embryo straight in fleshy endosperm.