Solanum brownii

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Family Solanaceae

Taxonomy: Solanum brownii Dunal

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Solanum elegans Dunal ex Poir. (taxonomic synonym)
Solanum violaceum R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
Solanum violaceum f. scabrum (Benth.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Solanum violaceum var. album Maiden & Betche (taxonomic synonym)
Solanum violaceum var. scabrum Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Solanum violaceum var. variegatum R.T.Baker (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (8), ABRS_2023 (42), Clarke_2015 (2), Cooper_2013 (8), Kew_2019_1 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), NHNSW_2014_2 (8), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (18), NSWFRD_2014 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 125 records in 14 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 17.75 mm (10-29 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 17.75 mm (10-29 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 17.83 mm (10-29 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): green (2); red (1); white (1); yellow (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 91.88 mm (40-130 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 18.38 mm (5-30 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.08 cm (0.5-1.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (2); narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed_shallow (1); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (8) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyynn (1); nnnnnyyyyyyn (2); yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.35 mg (1.35-1.35 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (2.5-3.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
seed_width (numerical): 2.75 mm (2.5-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.64 m (0.6-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): sharp_pointed_defence (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	16	42	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	12	18	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022	4	8	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013	5	8	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	8	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
McGlone_2015	6	6	M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_2014	3	3	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Clarke_2015	2	2	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.