Editing Atropa (section)

==Species==
Six species and one natural hybrid are accepted.<ref name = powo/>
* ''[[Atropa acuminata]]'' <small>[[John Forbes Royle|Royle]] ex [[John Lindley|Lindl.]]</small> &ndash; Indian belladonna/''maitbrand'' ([[Kashmir]] and adjoining regions of India, [[Pakistan]] and [[Afghanistan]], also N. [[Iran]]). Endangered.
* ''[[Atropa baetica]]'' <small>[[Heinrich Moritz Willkomm|Willk.]]</small> &ndash; Andalusian belladonna / ''tabaco gordo'' / ''tabba'' (S. and S.E. [[Spain]] and W. [[North Africa]]). Endangered.
* ''[[Atropa belladonna]]'' <small>[[L.]]</small> &ndash; Belladonna/deadly nightshade ([[Europe]], [[West Asia]] and North Africa). A very variable species with a very extensive distribution, the which factors have contributed to the description of species not currently accepted.
* ''[[Atropa indobelladonna]]'' {{small|Karthik. & V.S.Kumar}} – [[Arunachal Pradesh]] in the eastern Himalayas
* ''[[Atropa komarovii]]'' <small>Blin.& Shalyt</small> &ndash; [[Turkmenistan]] belladonna ([[Kopet Dag]] range dividing Iran from Turkmenistan and adjoining regions in N.E. (Caspian) Iran). Distinctive in that flowers borne singly.
* ''[[Atropa × martiana]]'' {{small|Font Quer}} (''A. baetica'' × ''A. belladonna'') – Morocco and east-central and southern Spain
* ''[[Atropa pallidiflora]]'' <small>[[Eva Schönbeck-Temesy|Schönb.-Tem.]]</small> &ndash; Hyrcanian belladonna ([[Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests]], notably those of [[Mazandaran province]], N. Iran, also Afghanistan).<ref>Rechinger, Karl Heinz and Schönbeck-Temesy, Eva 1972. Solanaceae. Nº 100 de Flora Iranica : Flora des iranischen Hochlandes und der umrahmenden Gebirge; Persien, Afghanistan, Teile von West-Pakistan, Nord-Iraq, Azerbaidjan, Turkmenistan. 102 pp.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/jart/prj3/nhm/data/uploads/Verlag/05a%20Flora%20Iranica%20volumes.pdf|title=Flora Iranica|website=nhm-wien.ac.at|access-date=12 September 2023}}</ref>

The genus ''Atropa'' is currently under review, so changes in nomenclature are likely, once said review is complete. It will be seen from the above that there is an overlap in the respective distributions of ''A. acuminata'', ''A. komarovii'' and ''A. pallidiflora'' in the lush Hyrcanian forests of Northern Iran, and it is possible that some or all of these species may yet be subsumed in the concept ''Atropa belladonna''. ''A. belladonna'' itself (including its variety ''caucasica'') is also present in the Hyrcanian forests and vol. 100 of Flora Iranica includes a useful key with which to distinguish the four species occurring in northern Iran. Data on ''A. pallidiflora'' and ''A. acuminata'' Royle ex Miers are neither abundant nor readily accessible on the Internet at present. The reported presence of an ''Atropa'' species in Mongolia is intriguing, given that country's relative remoteness from Kashmir and its (Kashmir's) well-attested population of ''Atropa acuminata'' Royle ex Lindl. The unequivocal presence of ''Atropa'' in the [[Eastern Himalaya]] would go at least some way to bridging the gap between Kashmiri and Mongolian populations of this genus. Some light might be cast upon this problem by the gaining of better knowledge concerning the rare and poorly-known species ''A. indobelladonna'', found in [[Arunachal Pradesh]] and adjoining areas of [[Assam]].  This was first described in 1961 under the name ''Pauia belladonna'', as the sole species of the  monotypic genus ''Pauia'', the specific name belladonna being bestowed by authors Deb and Dutta because of its partial similarity to Indian belladonna (''Atropa acuminata'' {{small|Royle ex Lindl}}).<ref>Armando T. Hunziker: The Genera of Solanaceae. A.R.G. Gantner Verlag K.G., Ruggell, Liechtenstein 2001. {{ISBN|3-904144-77-4}}.</ref> In 2020 It was placed in genus ''Atropa'', on the strength of evidence scant, to say the least, and somewhat at variance with the original anatomical line drawings of the species. No photographic images of the species are currently viewable on the internet.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Atropa indobelladonna'' Karthik. & V.S.Kumar {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77214670-1|website=[[Plants of the World Online]] |access-date=25 April 2024|language=en}}</ref>