Taxon: Solanum seaforthianum Andrews

Common names:

• black nightshade   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Brazilian nightshade   (Source: J Adel BG 4:67. 1981) – English
  
• climbing nightshade   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• deadly nightshade   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Italian-jasmine   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• potato-creeper   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  
• St. Vincent-lilac   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• aartappelranker   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• brasilianischer Nachtschatten   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• guindilla   (Source: F Veracruz ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; J Adel BG 4:67. 1981)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Lampe & McCann)
  
• Weed   (fide Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

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View toxicology references for Solanum seaforthianum from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago - Trinidad
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Western South America: Colombia

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Veracruz [natzd.?], Yucatan [natzd.?]
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize [natzd.?]; Costa Rica [natzd.?]; El Salvador [natzd.?]; Guatemala [natzd.?]; Honduras [natzd.?]; Nicaragua [natzd.?]; Panama [natzd.?]
• also naturalized elsewhere in tropics

• also cultivated in tropics

References:

• Solanaceae source: a global taxonomic resource for the nightshade family (on-line resource).
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• D'Arcy, W. G. 1974. Solanum and its close relatives in Florida. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 61:859.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds. 1978–. Flora de Veracruz.
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants.
• Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980-
• Missouri Botanical Garden. W³Tropicos (on-line resource).
• Nee, M. 1999. Synopsis of Solanum in the New World. In: Nee, M. et al., eds., Solanaceae IV: advances in biology and utilization. 296.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Symon, D. E. 1981. A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia. J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 4:67.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Solanum seaforthianum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Solanum seaforthianum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Solanum seaforthianum.

Check other web resources for Solanum seaforthianum Andrews:

• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Solanaceae Source: A global taxonomic resource for the nightshade family
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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