7407.000 Solanum - Nightshades
LYCOPERSICON Mill.
Description of the genus
Herbs, shrubs, climbers or trees, unarmed or spiny, often stellate-hairy. Stipules 0, but Solanum mauritianum has prominent pseudostipules. Leaves alternate, entire, lobed to pinnatisect or pinnate. Inflorescences often extra-axillary, mostly racemose or umbellate cymes or terminal panicles. Calyx (4-)5-10-toothed or lobed, not or only slightly enlarging in fruit. Corolla often rotate, (4-)5(-6)-lobed, white, yellow, blue or purple. Filaments shorter than anthers; anthers often connivent, dehiscing by apical pores, Ovary 2(-4)-locular. Fruit a ± spherical berry. Derivation of name: Ex Latin; solamen, quieting, alluding to the sedative properties Worldwide: 1700 species, more or less cosmopolitan, especially in warm countries Malawi: 26 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| aculeastrum Dunal var. aculeastrum | C,S | Description, Image |
| aculeatissimum Jacq. | Description, Image | |
| americanum Mill. | N | Description, Image |
| anguivi Lam. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| betaceum Cav. | C | Description, Image |
| campylacanthum 'incanum type' | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| campylacanthum 'panduriforme type' | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| chrysotrichum Schltdl. | C | Description, Image |
| giganteum Jacq. | C,S | Description, Image |
| goetzei Dammer | N,S | Description, Image |
| grossidentatum A. Rich. | N,C | Description |
| lycopersicum L. | Description, Image | |
| macrocarpon L. | S | Description, Image |
| mammosum L. | ||
| mauritianum Scop. | S | Description, Image |
| nigrum L. | S | Image |
| retroflexum Dunal | C,S | Description, Image |
| richardii Dunal var. richardii | C,S | Description |
| richardii Dunal var. burtt-davyi (Dunkley) A.E. Gonç. | C | |
| schumannianum Dammer | N,C,S | |
| seaforthianum Andr. | C,S | Description, Image |
| tarderemotum Bitter | N,C,S | |
| terminale Forssk. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| tettense Klotzsch var. renschii (Vatke) A.E. Gonç. | S | Description, Image |
| tettense Klotzsch var. tettense | S | Description, Image |
| torvum Sw. | S | Description, Image |
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Flora of Caprivi: Solanum
Flora of the DRC: Solanum
Flora of Malawi: cultivated Solanum
Flora of Mozambique: Solanum
Flora of Mozambique: cultivated Solanum
Flora of Rwanda: Solanum
Flora of Zambia: Solanum
Flora of Zambia: cultivated Solanum
Flora of Zimbabwe: Solanum
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Solanum
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): SolanumBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Solanum
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Solanum
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Solanum
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iNaturalist: Solanum
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Solanum
JSTOR Plant Science: Solanum
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Solanum
Plants of the World Online: Solanum
Tropicos: Solanum
Wikipedia: Solanum