Solanum styleanum
DunalSprawling annual herb to 50 cm high, pale to dark green, pubescent with glandular hairs; prickles absent. Leaves ovate, mostly 4–6 cm long, 1–4 cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base truncate to cuneate, margins entire or shallowly lobed, slightly discolorous, both surfaces sparsely pubescent to glabrescent; petiole 0.5–2 cm long. Inflorescences simple, 2–8(–10)-flowered; peduncle c. 1 cm long. Flowers on pedicels 4–10 mm long; calyx 1.5–2.5 mm long, accrescent in fruit, lobes broad-triangular, 1–2 mm long; corolla stellate, 12–14 mm diam., white, lobes ovate to oblong; anthers 1.5–2 mm long. Berry broad-ovoid, 6–9 mm diam., green to purplish-green; seeds 1.8–2 mm long, light brown; stone-cell granules 0.4–0.8 mm diam. Flowers mostly summer.
VVP, VRiv, GipP, CVU, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, Strz, VAlp. Als naturalised SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas. Native to South America. An occasional weed of cultivated areas.
The earliest legitimately published name for this taxon is Solanum styleanum. Särkinen et al. (2018) erroneously list Solanum styleanum (1852) as a synonym of S. nitidibaccatum (1912), Solanum styleanum having nomenclatural priority.
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Solanaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 332–365. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
SpinningSärkinen, T.; Poczai, P.; Barboza, G.E.; van der Weerden, G.M.; Baden, M.; Knapp, S. (2018). A revision of the Old World Black Nightshades (Morelloid clade of Solanum L., Solanaceae). *PhytoKeys * 106: 1–223.