AusTraits

Solanum hystrix

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Family Solanaceae

Taxonomy: Solanum hystrix R.Br.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): WA (formerly naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), NSW (formerly naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (19), ANBG_2019 (4), Draper_2023 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (14), SAH_2014 (4), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 87 records in 15 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 50 mm (30-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2014]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 18.33 mm (10-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2014]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.5 cm (1.5-1.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (3); triangular (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (1); perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): sprawling (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.34 mm (2-2.52 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.01 mm (2.01-2.01 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_flattened (1); reniform (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.3-0.3 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231219Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_20231115S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
NHNSW_20231014N. 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_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ANBG_201944Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
NHNSW_2014_244Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202244N. 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/.
SAH_201424J. P. Jessop and H. R. Toelken. Flora of South Australia, 4th edition, 4 vols. Electronic version curated by J. Kellermann, State Herbarium of South Australia.. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1986.
SAH_202244S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Yang_202312S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.