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Solanum echinatum

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Family Solanaceae

Taxonomy: Solanum echinatum R.Br.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Solanum ellipticum var. pannifolium A.Cunn. ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Solanum seitheae Symon (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (7), ABRS_2023 (38), Brock_1993 (10), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 78 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
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): green (2); yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 58.33 mm (30-130 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 36.67 mm (20-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 3.5 cm (1-5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed_shallow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2); shrub (2); subshrub (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (3); perennial (4); short_lived_perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); prostrate (2); sprawling (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyyynnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.92 mg (0.92-0.92 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.38 mm (2-2.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.49 m (0.2-0.6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231438Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Brock_1993810J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
ABRS_202247Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Sweedman_200624L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200633A. 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.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_611Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.