Michel Félix Dunal

French botanist (1789-1856).

Michel Félix Dunal (24 October 1789 in Montpellier – 29 July 1856 in Montpellier) was a French botanist. He was a professor of botany in Montpellier, France. He held the chair of natural history at the University of Montpellier from 1816 until his death in 1856. The Solanaceous plant genus Dunalia is named after him, as is the green algae genus Dunaliella. He is especially known for his work with the genus Solanum, and published an important work on the genus; Solanorum generumque affinium Synopsis seu Solanorum Historiae, editionis secundae summarium ad characteres differentiales redactum, se

Abbreviations: Dunal
Occupations: pteridologist, botanist
Citizenships: France
Languages: French
Dates: 1777-01-01T00:00:00Z – 1856-01-01T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Montpellier
Direct attributions: 235 plants, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 317 plants, 3 fungi

235 plants attributed, 82 plants contributed to317 plants:

Withania somnifera (Ashwaganda) (L.) Dunal 1852
plant species in the solanaceae family
Withania somnifera, known commonly as ashwagandha, is an evergreen shrub in the Solanaceae family that is native to the Middle East and North Africa, other African regions, southern Europe, Indian subcontinent, and across Southeast Asia. Several other species in the genus Withania are morphologically similar. Other common names include Indian ginseng and winter cherry. Withania somnifera is a short shrub 35–75 cm (14–30 in) tall with tomentose branches, dull green elliptic leaves up to 10–12 cm (3.9–4.7 in) long, small green bell-shaped flowers, and orange-red ripe fruit. It is affected by
Asimina triloba (Papaw) (L.) Dunal 1817
perennial and fruit plant species in the annonaceae family
Asimina triloba, the American papaw, pawpaw, paw paw, or paw-paw, among many regional names, is a species of small deciduous tree. It has large leaves and produces a large, yellowish-green to brown fruit. The species is native to eastern North America, in a more temperate range than its tropical relatives. It is a patch-forming (clonal) understory tree of hardwood forests, being found in well-drained, deep, fertile bottomland and also hilly upland habitat. Although much of the plant contains the neurotoxin annonacin, the ripe fruits are edible. They are sweet, with a custard-like texture and
Annona purpurea (Sincuya) Moc. & Sessé ex Dunal 1817
plant species in the annonaceae family
Annona purpurea is an edible fruit and medicinal plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to central and southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela in northwestern South America, and Trinidad. Its common names include soncoya, sincuya, and cabeza de negro.
Monodora Dunal 1817
plant genus in the annonaceae family
Monodora is a genus of plant in family Annonaceae. It contains approximately 15 species, distributed throughout tropical Africa.
Solanum sessiliflorum (Cocona) Dunal 1814
plant species in the solanaceae family
Solanum sessiliflorum, the cocona, is a tropical shrub of the family Solanaceae. The cocona plant has sturdy branches and huge, serrate and hairy leaves. Cocona closely resembles a number of close relatives, including naranjilla (S. quitoense) and pseudolulo (S. pseudolulo.) It can be distinguished from those plants by its lack of spines. It will hybridize with those and other close relatives. Cocona also lacks the characteristic purple coloring usually seen in the naranjilla. Its flowers resemble large potato flowers, with light green petals. Cocona is harvested in parts of South America
Monodora myristica (Calabash-nutmeg) (Gaertn.) Dunal 1817
medicinal plant species in the annonaceae family
Monodora myristica, the calabash nutmeg or African nutmeg, is a tropical tree of the family Annonaceae or custard apple family of flowering plants. It is native to tropical Africa from Sierra Leone in the west to Tanzania. In former times, its seeds were widely sold as an inexpensive nutmeg substitute. This is now less common outside its region of production. Other names of calabash nutmeg include Jamaican nutmeg, ehuru, ariwo, awerewa, ehiri, airama, African orchid nutmeg, muscadier de Calabash lubushi, and pebe or pebbe.
Solanum rostratum (Buffalobur) Dunal 1813
annual plant species in the solanaceae family
Solanum rostratum is a species of nightshade (genus Solanum) that is native to the United States and northern and central Mexico. Common names include buffalobur nightshade, buffalo-bur, spiny nightshade, Colorado bur, Kansas thistle, bad woman, Mexican thistle, and Texas thistle. It is an annual, self-compatible herb that forms a tumbleweed. Individual plants reach 1–1.5 m (3.3–4.9 ft) tall, have once or twice pinnatified leaves (see image of leaf), and abundant spines on the stems and leaves. It produces yellow flowers with pentagonal corollas 2–3.5 cm (0.79–1.38 in) in diameter and weakly
Solanum viarum (Tropical Soda Apple) Dunal 1852
annual plant species in the solanaceae family
Solanum viarum, the tropical soda apple, is a species of perennial shrub native to Brazil and Argentina with a prickly stem and prickly leaves. The fruit is golf-ball-sized with the coloration of a watermelon. It is considered an invasive species in the lower eastern coastal states of the United States and more recently in New South Wales and Queensland in Australia (first being spotted on the Mid North Coast in 2010).
Solanum lasiocarpum (Indian Nightshade) Dunal 1813
plant species in the solanaceae family
Solanum lasiocarpum, synonym Solanum ferox L., otherwise known as Indian nightshade or hairy-fruited eggplant, is a plant that produces edible fruit. Its flowers are white and its fruits are pale yellow. S. lasiocarpum is found wild in parts of temperate and tropical Asia: the Andaman Islands, Sri Lanka, Indochina, south China, Taiwan, much of Malesia, Papuasia and Queensland, Australia. In other countries it is primarily known as a domesticated plant. Domesticated plants bear larger fruits and lack the prickly skin that is found in the wild plants. The color found in the center of fruit is
Kadsura japonica (Kadsura Vine) (L.) Dunal 1817
plant species in the schisandraceae family
Kadsura japonica, commonly known as the kadsura vine or simply kadsura, is a plant species native to Japan (Honshū, Kyūshū and the Ryukyu Islands) in woodlands. The larvae of the moth Caloptilia kadsurae feed on K. japonica in the main Japanese islands and Ryukyu Islands.
Solanum retroflexum (Sunberry) Dunal 1852
annual and perennial plant species in the solanaceae family
Solanum retroflexum, commonly known as umsobo (isiZulu), wonderberry or sunberry, is a historic heirloom fruiting shrub. Both common names are also used for the European black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) in some places, particularly where the latter species has been introduced, so care must be taken to distinguish them. It is sometimes called garden huckleberry, but that properly refers to the species S. scabrum described by Philip Miller. The plant produces diminutive, dark blue-purple edible fruits that are bland in flavor and often combined with sugar in desserts. Green (unripe) fruits may
Solanum aculeastrum (Goat Bitter Apple) Dunal 1852
plant species in the solanaceae family
Solanum aculeastrum is commonly known as soda apple, sodaapple nightshade, goat apple, poison apple, or more ambiguously as "bitter-apple". It is a poisonous nightshade species from Africa and only distantly related to true apples. The term "soda apple" probably derives from "Sodom apple", modified due to the fruit's detergent properties.
Physalis coztomatl (Cotztomatl) Moc. & Sessé ex Dunal 1852
perennial plant species in the solanaceae family
Physalis coztomatl is a plant species in the genus Physalis. It produces edible orange-yellow fruits, but is rarely cultivated. The leaves are oval-shaped. It is native to America; the Aztecs used it medicinally. It contains labdane diterpenes, and was the first species in Physalis in which they were found.
Solanum heterodoxum (Melonleaf Nightshade) Dunal 1813
plant species in the solanaceae family
Solanum heterodoxum, the melonleaf nightshade, is a species of flowering plant in the family Solanaceae. It is native to Mexico and the US state of New Mexico, and has been introduced to Bulgaria. Solanum heterodoxum var. setigeroides is now considered to be a full species, Solanum setigeroides, native to more northerly areas of the United States than S. heterodoxum.
Solanum nelsonii (Nelson's Horsenettle) Dunal 1852
plant species in the solanaceae family
Solanum nelsonii (often misspelled Solanum nelsoni), common names pōpolo and Nelson's horsenettle, is a partially woody sprawling shrub-like perennial plant in the family Solanaceae, part of the Solanum or nightshade genus. This poisonous plant is endemic to the Pacific Islands. It grows low in coastal sites in coral rubble to pure sand. Solanum nelsonii was listed as an endangered species wherever found by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on September 30, 2016. Pōpolo is used in restoration projects around the state of Hawaii and the Northwest Hawaiian Islands. Nelson's horsenettle was
Solanum furcatum (Forked Nightshade) Dunal 1814
annual plant species in the solanaceae family
Solanum furcatum is a species of plant in the family Solanaceae known by the common name forked nightshade. It is native to South America. It is known elsewhere as an introduced species.
Solanum bulbocastanum (Ornamental Nightshade) Dunal 1814
plant species in the solanaceae family
Solanum bulbocastanum, the ornamental nightshade, is a plant in the family Solanaceae, native to Mexico and parts of the U.S. Southwest. It is closely related to the potato and, as it has evolved strong resistance to all known varieties of potato blight, has been used to genetically engineer resistance into the cultivated varieties of potatoes around the world. The use of genetic engineering is helpful, as efforts to hybridize by traditional methods have so far been unsuccessful, and the use of somatic hybridization to transfer genes is difficult. A resistance to the Columbia root-knot
Grindelia squarrosa (Curly-top Gumweed) (Pursh) Dunal 1819
annual plant species in the asteraceae family
Grindelia squarrosa, also known as a curly-top gumweed or curlycup gumweed, is a small North American biennial or short-lived perennial plant.
Annona sericea Dunal 1817
plant species in the annonaceae family
Annona sericea is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago and Venezuela. Michel Félix Dunal, the French botanist who first formally described the species, named it after the silky hairs (sericeus in Latin) on its branches and leaves. In Brazil its common name is Aratincum do Para.
Xylopia nitida (White Kuyama) Dunal 1817
plant species in the annonaceae family
Xylopia nitida is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela. Michel Félix Dunal, the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after the shiny (nitidus in Latin) upper surface of its leaves.
Withania coagulans (Indian Rennet) (Stocks) Dunal 1852
plant species in the solanaceae family
Withania coagulans ( Sanskrit: ऋष्यगंधा, Rishyagandha; Urdu: پنیر بوٹی, Paneer booti; پنیر ڈوڈا, paneer doddi; تخم حیات, tukhme hayat; Tamil: Panneer ilai chedi, Hindi: पनीर के फूल, Paneer phool, Pashto: شاپیانگا/مخازور) is a plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, native to Afghanistan and the Indian subcontinent. Within the genus Withania, W. somnifera (Ashwagandha) and W. coagulans (Paneer doddi/Ashutosh booti) are economically significant, and are cultivated in several regions for their use in Ayurveda. It is claimed to help control diabetes. The berries contain a rennet-like
Solanum ensifolium Dunal 1852
plant species in the solanaceae family
Solanum ensifolium is a species of plant in the family Solanaceae endemic to Puerto Rico. Commonly known as erubia, it is nearly extinct due to habitat loss. Synonyms Solanum drymophilum O.E.Schulz Solanum longifolium Pav. ex Dunal Solanum congestiflorum var. longifolium is S. crispum Solanum longifolium of Sessé & Mociño actually refers to the S. muricatum of Aiton. Solanum longifolium of Dunal is Solanum subinerme. Solanum nudum var. longifolium refers to S. sieberi
Solanum douglasii (Greenspot Nightshade) Dunal 1852
perennial plant species in the solanaceae family
Solanum douglasii is a North American species of plant in the family Solanaceae known by the common name greenspot nightshade.
Solanum caripense (Tzimbalo) Humb. & Bonpl. ex Dunal 1816
plant species in the solanaceae family
Solanum caripense is a species of evergreen shrub native to South America and grown for its edible fruit. Rare in cultivation, it is known as tzimbalo. The fruit closely resembles the related pepino (Solanum muricatum), and it has been speculated that Solanum caripense may be the wild ancestor of the pepino. Like the pepino, the tzimbalo is a relative of other nightshades cultivated for their edible fruit, including the tomato (S. lycopersicum), the naranjilla (S. quitoense) and the eggplant (S. melongena). Solanum caripense is part of the Basarthrum clade within the broader Potato clade. The
Lycium oxycarpum (Honeythorn) Dunal 1852
plant species in the solanaceae family
Lycium oxycarpum is a shrub in the nightshade family (Solanaceae) indigenous to the Karoo regions of South Africa.
Lycium berlandieri (Berlandier's Wolfberry) Dunal 1852
plant species in the solanaceae family
Lycium berlandieri is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family known by the common name Berlandier's wolfberry. It is native to Mexico and the south-western United States from Arizona to Texas. This shrub reaches up to 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) tall. The roots may extend 9 metres (30 ft) from the plant. It has spiny branches. It loses its leaves and becomes dormant during dry times. The bell-shaped flowers are solitary or borne in pairs. The fruit is a juicy red berry. This plant's life span is 90 years on average. This plant is characteristic of the flora of the Sonoran and
Cistus clusii Dunal 1824
plant species in the cistaceae family
Cistus clusii is a shrubby species of flowering plant in the family Cistaceae, with white flowers, native to south west and south central Europe and north Africa. It has been wrongly called Cistus libanotis by many authors.
Asimina parviflora (Smallflower Pawpaw) (Michx.) Dunal 1817
plant species in the annonaceae family
Asimina parviflora, the smallflower pawpaw, is a small to medium shrub in the custard apple family. A. parviflora hybridizes readily with A. triloba to form Asimina ×piedmontana.
Solanum tampicense (Scrambling Nightshade) Dunal 1852
plant species in the solanaceae family
Solanum tampicense, also known as wetland nightshade, aquatic soda apple, and scrambling nightshade, is a perennial in the Solanaceae or Nightshade Family. It can exist as a vine, tree, or shrub and is native to the West Indies and Central America. It is classified as a noxious weed by the United States Department of Agriculture and by several states and is known as an invasive species in the state of Florida. This species is known by various other common names such as Tampico soda apple, and wetlands soda apple.
Solanum myriacanthum (Kota-bengena) Dunal 1813
plant species in the solanaceae family
Solanum myriacanthum (syn. Solanum khasianum), the Himalayan nightshade, is a species of flowering plant in the family Solanaceae. It is native to Mexico and Central America, and has been introduced to Cuba, Nepal, Assam and Myanmar. It may be invasive in the southeastern United States
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