What is the common name of the family described in the given information?

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It is a large family, commonly called as the ‘potato family’ . It is widely distributed in tropics, subtropics and even temperate zones (Figure 5.17) . Vegetative Characters -Plants mostly herbs, shrubs and rarely small trees Stem: herbaceous rarely woody, aerial; erect, cylindrical, branched, solid or hollow, hairy or glabrous, underground stem in potato (Solanum tuberosum) Leaves: alternate, simple, rarely pinnately compound, exstipulate; venation reticulate