Solanum discolor

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Family Solanaceae

Taxonomy: Solanum discolor R.Br.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Solanum discolor R.Br. var. discolor (nomenclatural synonym)
Solanum yirrkalense Symon (taxonomic synonym)
Solanum yirrkalensis Symon (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (8), ABRS_2023 (41), ATRP_2020 (2), Cooper_2013 (26), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 99 records in 8 datasets.

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 13 mm (9-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 12.88 mm (9-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_height (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): red (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 95 mm (50-180 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 32.33 mm (14-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.38 cm (1-2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); lanceolate (1); triangular (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); lobed_shallow (2); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnynnnnnnn (1); yynnnyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: ATRP_2020]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 3.1 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): winged (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	16	41	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013	10	26	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	9	13	R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
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.
Sjostrom_2006	3	6	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.
ATRP_2020	2	2	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.