Solanum stelligerum

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Family Solanaceae

Taxonomy: Solanum stelligerum Sm.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Solanum lucorum Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Solanum stelligerum Sm. var. stelligerum (nomenclatural synonym)
Solanum stelligerum var. lucorum F.Muell. ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (20), Benwell_2024 (4), Butler_2004 (5), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (14), Draper_2023 (3), Gosper_2004 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (4), Kooyman_2011 (13), McCarthy_2017 (19), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (16), NSWFRD_2014 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 55 traits from 153 records in 20 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 (3); resprouts (1) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): red (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 1815.83 mm2 (660.92-3249.81 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_length (numerical): 55 mm (30-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 18.67 mm (10-32 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 6.88 cm (0.5-20 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 67.01 g/m2 (33.63-136.49 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); lanceolate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (8); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_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 (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (3); zoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Draper_2023; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (2); vertebrates (3) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Draper_2023; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyynnnn (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Benwell_2024; NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1); vegetative (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.07 mg (1.07-1.07 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 1.58 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.61 mg/mm3 (0.54-0.68 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	13	20	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
White_2020	20	20	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
McCarthy_2017	3	19	J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
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	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
NSWFRD_2014	9	11	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.
Butler_2004	5	5	D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
NHNSW_2014_2	5	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.
Benwell_2024	4	4	A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
Kew_2019_6	1	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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/.
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.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. 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_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.
Gosper_2004	1	1	C. R. Gosper. “Fruit characteristics of invasive bitou bush, Chrysanthemoides monilifera (Asteraceae), and a comparison with co-occurring native plant species”. Australian Journal of Botany 52.2 (2004), pp. 223-230. doi: 10.1071/bt03046.
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.