Solanum silvestre

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Family Solanaceae

Taxonomy: Solanum silvestre A.R.Bean

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Solanum brownii Dunal (misapplied)
Solanum violaceum R.Br. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (17), 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 43 traits from 84 records in 10 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) [sources: White_2020]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 17.5 mm (15-20 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 16.25 mm (13-20 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 16.25 mm (13-20 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): green (2); white (1); yellow (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 92.5 mm (50-140 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 26.67 mm (10-45 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.27 cm (0.9-2.2 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); cuneate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
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 (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyyyn (1) [sources: 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): 0.6 mg (0.6-0.6 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (1-3.5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RBGV_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.73 m (1-2 m) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
RBGV_2023	14	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	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/.
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.
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/.
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/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.