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  • Vascular plant groups
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  • Vegetative key to families
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Vascular plants

Magnoliophyta

Magnoliopsida

Solanaceae

Solanum

  • Solanum vescum
  • Solanum seaforthianum
  • Solanum aviculare
  • Solanum laxum
  • Solanum linearifolium
  • Solanum mauritianum
  • Solanum erianthum
  • Solanum simile
  • Solanum brownii
  • Solanum radicans
  • Solanum triflorum
  • Solanum pseudocapsicum
  • Solanum physalifoliumnitidibaccatum
  • Solanum chenopodioides
  • Solanum nigrum
  • Solanum americanum
  • Solanum celatum
  • Solanum armourense
  • Solanum parvifolium
  • Solanum stelligerum
  • Solanum cinereum
  • Solanum campanulatum
  • Solanum sisymbriifolium
  • Solanum capsicoides
  • Solanum linnaeanum
  • Solanum pungetium
  • Solanum prinophyllum

Solanum L.

Nightshades

c. 120 species in Aust. (native, endemic, naturalized); all states and territories

Herbs or shrubs. Leaves usually petiolate. Flowers in lateral (extra-axillary) cymes which may appear to be racemes or umbels or rarely solitary. Calyx 5- rarely 4-lobed, spreading. Corolla broad-campanulate or stellate to rotate, 4–5-lobed, with a short tube. Filaments very short; anthers basifixed, connivent, exserted, opening by terminal pores. Fruit a globular, usually 2-locular berry.