{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |image_caption = |taxon = Trozelia |authority = Raf. |synonyms = ''Plicula'' {{small|Raf.}} }} '''''Trozelia''''' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Trozelia'' Raf. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:38573-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=14 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref> It is also within the ''Physalinae'' (Miers) Hunz. subtribe.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Deanna |first1=Rocío |last2=Larter |first2=Maximilian |last3=Barboza |first3=Gloria Estela |last4=Smith |first4=Stacey D. |title=Repeated evolution of a morphological novelty: A phylogenetic analysis of the inflated fruiting calyx in the Physalideae tribe (Solanaceae) |journal=American Journal of Botany |date=2019 |volume=106 |issue=2 |pages=270–279 |doi=10.1002/ajb2.1242 |pmid=30779447 |biorxiv=10.1101/425991}}</ref>
It is native to Ecuador and Peru in western South America.<ref name="POWO" />
==Known species== According to Kew:<ref name="POWO" /> * ''Trozelia grandiflora'' <small>(Benth.) J.M.H.Shaw</small> * ''Trozelia umbellata'' <small>(Ruiz & Pav.) Raf.</small>
The genus name of ''Trozelia'' is in honour of Clas Blechert Trozelius (1719–1794), a Swedish clergyman and botanist. He was also professor of economics at Lund University.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> It was first described and published in Sylva Tellur. on page 54 in 1838.<ref name="POWO"/>
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Category:Solanaceae Category:Solanaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1838 Category:Flora of Ecuador Category:Flora of Peru