Taxon: Solanum physalifolium Rusby

• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

KS(as Solanum sarrachoides)°, MI(as Solanum sarrachoides)*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• Argentine nightshade   (Source: Prom Underused Crops ) – English
  
• green nightshade   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• hairy nightshade   (Source: Prom Underused Crops ) – English
  
• argentinischer Nachtschatten   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• glanzfrüchtiger Nachtschatten   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  

Economic importance:

• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Prom Underused Crops 15:32-34. 1997)
  

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Bolivia
  Southern South America: Argentina - Buenos Aires, Chubut, Entre Rios, Mendoza, Neuquen, Rio Negro, Salta, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Cruz; Chile

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Europe
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  United States

References:

• Solanaceae source: a global taxonomic resource for the nightshade family (on-line resource).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Connolly, B. A. 2008. Six new vascular plant taxa for Connecticut. Rhodora 110:354–358.
• Edmonds, J. M. 1986. Biosystematics of Solanum sarrachoides Sendtner and S. physalifolium Rusby (S. nitidibaccatum Bitter). Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 92:25–36.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares. [recognized subsp. physalifolium and nitidbaccatum].
• Nee, M. 1999. Synopsis of Solanum in the New World. In: Nee, M. et al., eds., Solanaceae IV: advances in biology and utilization. 307.
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Rott, M. et al. 2011. Nightshade hosts for Canadian isolates of Globodera rostochiensis pathotype Ro1. Canad. J. Pl. Pathol. 33:410–415.
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Solanum physalifolium.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Solanum physalifolium.

Synonyms:

• (=) Solanum nitidibaccatum Bitter
  
• (=) Solanum physalifolium var. nitidibaccatum (Bitter) Edmonds
  
• (=) Solanum physalifolium var. physalifolium
  
• (=) Solanum sarrachoides auct.
  

Check other web resources for Solanum physalifolium Rusby:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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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