Solanum pungetium

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Family Solanaceae

Taxonomy: Solanum pungetium R.Br.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Solanum pungentium W.A.Dixon (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (21), Cooper_2013 (11), Fonseca_2000 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (8), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (16), NSWFRD_2014 (3), Pickup_2021 (9), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (20), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 135 records in 18 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 (5) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (3) [sources: Pickup_2021]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 27.5 mm (25-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 27.5 mm (25-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 27.5 mm (25-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): yellow (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 1124.75 mm2 (853-1396.5 mm2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995]
leaf_length (numerical): 65 mm (50-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 29.3 mm (20-40 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 45 mg (45-45 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.25 cm (1-1.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 31.19 g/m2 (29.9-32.47 g/m2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (3); triangular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (10); shrub (1); subshrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (3); short_lived_perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4); woody_base (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): sprawling (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_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 (2) [sources: Leishman_1995; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Leishman_1995; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnyyyy (3) [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]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.84 mg (0.72-0.9 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995]
seed_length (numerical): 3.25 mm (2.5-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; RBGV_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.26 m (0.3-1.5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): sharp_pointed_defence (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	13	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.
RBGV_2023	13	20	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.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	11	16	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	8	11	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Pickup_2021	3	9	M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
Leishman_1995	8	8	M. R. Leishman, M. Westoby, and E. Jurado. “Correlates of seed size variation: A comparison among five temperate floras”. Journal of Ecology 83 (1995), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.2307/2261604.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Fonseca_2000	4	4	C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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/.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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.
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/.
Leishman_1993	1	1	M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.