Solanum mauritianum

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Family Solanaceae

Taxonomy: Solanum mauritianum Scop.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Solanum auriculatum Aiton (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (21), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (14), Kubiak_2009 (5), NHNSW_2014_2 (6), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (17), NSWFRD_2014 (5), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (22), SAH_2014 (5), Sams_2017 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 119 records in 16 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 (1); resprouts (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 12 mo (12-12 mo) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 13.33 mm (10-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 13.12 mm (10-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): yellow (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 196.25 mm (90-300 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014]
leaf_width (numerical): 85.62 mm (35-140 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014]
petiole_length (numerical): 6 cm (3-9 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 43.2 g/m2 (43.2-43.2 g/m2) [sources: Sams_2017]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (2); undulate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): undulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); flying_vertebrates (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyyyyyn (2); yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 1.83 mm (1.5-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; RBGV_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.42 mg/mm3 (0.42-0.42 mg/mm3) [sources: Sams_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 4 m (4-4 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
RBGV_2023	15	22	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023	14	21	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023	12	17	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/.
Cooper_2013	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NHNSW_2014_2	6	6	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Sams_2017	6	6	M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
Kubiak_2009	3	5	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
NSWFRD_2014	5	5	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.
SAH_2014	3	5	J. 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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Clarke_2015	3	3	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.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	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/.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
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.