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Plants with stellate hairs; prickles often present. |
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Plants glabrous or with predominantly simple or rarely dendritic hairs, stellate hairs usually absent, if present on leaves, then mixed with simple hairs; prickles mostly absent. |
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Plants unarmed; leaves entire; anthers stout, not tapering; inflorescences many-flowered, flat or rounded panicles held upright above foliage in flower and fruit |
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2 Solanum erianthum |
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Plants mostly armed; leaves mostly dentate or lobed; anthers tapering distally; inflorescences unbranched or 1-branched, rarely more, angling from twigs, held below foliage or along stems. |
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Calyx enlarged, closely enveloping most of berry. |
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Calyx hardly or not enlarged, not enveloping berry. |
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4 (3) |
Corolla yellow; anthers more than 1 cm, unequal; berry completely enveloped by calyx at maturity; fruiting calyx with dense prickles 1-2 cm |
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38 Solanum angustifolium |
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Corolla white, blue, or purplish; anthers less than 1 cm, equal; berry partly or completely exposed from enlarged calyx at maturity; fruiting calyx copiously or sparingly armed with prickles less than 1 cm. |
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Leaves usually pinnate-parted, lobes pinnately lobed or dentate; stems pubescent with simple, many-celled glandular hairs and few stellate hairs |
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37 Solanum sisymbriifolium |
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Leaves entire or irregularly dentate; stems with only stellate hairs. |
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Inflorescences less than 5 cm, peduncle less than 5 mm; corolla white |
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36 Solanum griffithii |
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Inflorescences more than 5 cm, peduncle more than 5 mm; corolla blue or purple |
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35 Solanum barbisetum |
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Fruit densely stellate hirsute with persistent tomentum; plants tomentose; calyx lobes nearly leaflike, more than 8 mm |
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34 Solanum lasiocarpum |
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Fruit glabrous; plants variously pubescent; calyx lobes not leaflike, mostly less than 7 mm. |
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Corolla more than 5 cm wide, deep purple, fading white, with contrasting abaxial pleats; sturdy trees to 12 m tall; fruit more than 3 cm |
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26 Solanum wrightii |
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Corolla less than 5 cm wide, white or purple, not conspicuously fading, lacking contrasting pleats; shrubs, or if small trees then trunk slender; fruit mostly less than 3 cm. |
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9 (8) |
Inflorescences mostly 1-3-branched; plants mostly more than 1 m. |
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Inflorescences unbranched; plants mostly less than 1 m. |
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10 (9) |
Leaves 3-5-lobed or parted, with loose and softly lanate pubescence on both surfaces, drying of 1 color; plants overall with rust-colored, short- or long-stalked, bristly-hispid stellate hairs |
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20 Solanum chrysotrichum |
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Leaves subentire or variously lobed, minutely scabrous with mostly sessile stellate pubescence adaxially, drying of different colors; leaves and stems lacking bristly, long-stalked hairs. |
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11 (10) |
Corolla white; pedicel with simple glandular hairs mixed with stellate ones; fruit yellow, more than 1 cm in diam. |
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25 Solanum torvum |
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Corolla blue, violet, or purple; pedicel with stellate hairs only; fruit red, less than 1 cm in diam. |
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12 (11) |
Leaves subentire or 6- or 7-sinuate lobed, ovate-elliptic; corolla more than 8 mm |
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22 Solanum macaonense |
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Leaves entire, lanceolate or narrowly oblong; corolla less than 8 mm |
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21 Solanum luzoniense |
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Fruit more than 1.4 cm across; flowers mostly andromonoecious. |
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Fruit less than 1.4 cm across; flowers mostly bisexual. |
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Fruit red, often longitudinally furrowed; corolla white or slightly purplish |
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29 Solanum aethiopicum |
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Fruit mostly yellow or black, not red, not furrowed; corolla blue or violet. |
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15 (14) |
Fruit mostly much more than 4 cm across, variously shaped, seldom globose, green, white, black, pink, or brown, only yellow at extreme maturity |
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40 Solanum melongena |
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Fruit mostly less than 4 cm across, globose, green or yellow |
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39 Solanum undatum |
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Leaves soon glabrescent, deeply pinnately lobed; stems with copious, compressed, bright yellow, nearly straight prickles often more than 7 mm; anthers more than 7 mm; fruit yellow |
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41 Solanum virginianum |
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Leaves with persistent indumentum, entire, dentate, or shallowly lobed; stems unarmed or with recurved spines less than 5 mm; anthers mostly less than 7 mm; fruit red or orange. |
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17 (16) |
Leaves entire; plants unarmed or sparingly armed; inflorescences elongated |
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23 Solanum nienkui |
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At least some leaves lobed or sinuate; plants armed, sometimes copiously so; inflorescences condensed. |
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18 (17) |
Leaves mostly less than 4 cm, sinuate; petiole less than 1.5 cm; inflorescences mostly terminal on leafy shoots |
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24 Solanum procumbens |
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Leaves mostly more than 5 cm, often saliently lobed; petiole mostly more than 1.5 cm; inflorescences mostly extra-axillary or axillary. |
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19 (18) |
Flowers usually purple; plants evidently armed; fruiting pedicels usually erect, more than 1 cm |
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27 Solanum violaceum |
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Flowers usually white; plants sparingly armed, occasionally with prickles less than 1 mm; fruiting pedicels strongly recurved, less than 1 cm |
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28 Solanum deflexicarpum |
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Anthers lanceolate, tapering to a slender subulate apex; plants with coarse, straight simple hairs, armed with needlelike prickles. |
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Anthers oblong or ovoid, not tapering; plants glabrescent or with simple or branched hairs, unarmed. |
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21 (20) |
Fruit orange-red; seeds yellowish, compressed discoid with a conspicuous orbicular wing, 4-6 mm in diam. (including wings) |
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32 Solanum capsicoides |
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Fruit light yellow; seeds brown, lenticular, unwinged, less than 4 mm in diam. |
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22 (21) |
Plants villous with mixed stellate and simple, partly glandular hairs; pericarp more than 1 cm thick. |
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Plants minutely tomentose with simple, many-celled, mostly glandular hairs, only leaves sparsely stellate abaxially; pericarp less than 1 cm thick |
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30 Solanum aculeatissimum |
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Stems pilose with some hairs 2 mm; leaf lobes sharp pointed; ovary glabrous; corolla purple |
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33 Solanum mammosum |
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Stems densely tomentose with hairs less than 1 mm long; leaf lobes blunt tipped; ovary and young fruit pubescent; corolla white or green |
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31 Solanum viarum |
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24 (20) |
Leaves pinnately compound, at least in part. |
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Leaves entire or variously parted, but not compound. |
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Leaves interruptedly odd-pinnate compound, usually with interstitial leaflets, viscid pubescent; pedicel articulated well above middle; foliage strongly odorous when crushed; calyx divided nearly halfway; underground tubers present |
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19 Solanum tuberosum |
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Leaves with 1 or 2 pairs of basal leaflets, mostly not glandular, sometimes glabrous; pedicel base articulate or not at all; foliage hardly odorous; calyx lobes short or absent; underground tubers absent. |
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26 (25) |
Plants glabrous; leaves usually 5-9-parted; calyx subtruncate; anthers free |
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17 Solanum seaforthianum |
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Plants pubescent; leaves entire or 3-5-parted; calyx with short distinct lobes; anthers connate |
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11 Solanum dulcamara |
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Shrubs; leaves large, often lobed to near midvein, lobes narrow; corolla lobes notched at apex; fruit nodding, orange-yellow, ellipsoid |
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1 Solanum laciniatum |
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Herbs or vines, if shrubs then leaves unlobed or lobes broad; corolla lobes entire; fruit various. |
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28 (27) |
Inflorescences solitary or paired flowers, or unbranched, often umbellate racemes (branched in S. merrillianum); mostly shrubs or herbs. |
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Inflorescences paniculate, mostly many flowered, peduncle branched; often climbers. |
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Shrubs; leaves borne on woody stems, all entire, mostly unequal paired; style and filaments glabrous. |
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Herbs or woody vines; leaves borne on herbaceous shoots, often dentate or sinuate, all alike; style and filaments pubescent. |
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30 (29) |
Peduncle and rachis short or obsolete, 1(-3)-flowered; pubescence of branched hairs; fruit bright orange-red |
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10 Solanum pseudocapsicum |
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Peduncle evident, rachis elongate, several to many flowered; pubescence of simple hairs; fruit pale, dull orange or yellow. |
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31 (30) |
Berry often less than 1 cm in diam.; corolla less than 1 cm; anthers less than 2.5 mm; pedicel less than 1 cm; leaves glabrous, minor ones rounded at apex |
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3 Solanum diphyllum |
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Berry more than 1.1 cm in diam.; corolla more than 1 cm; anthers more than 2.5 mm; pedicel more than 1 cm; leaves with tufts of hairs in axils of main veins abaxially, minor ones acute at apex |
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4 Solanum spirale |
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Woody vines; peduncle often branched; anthers 1.5-1.7 mm |
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6 Solanum merrillianum |
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Herbs; peduncle unbranched; anthers various in length. |
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33 (32) |
Fruit yellow, orange, or reddish, broadly ellipsoid; plants villous |
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9 Solanum villosum |
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Fruit black or rarely green, globose; plants glabrescent or puberulent. |
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34 (33) |
Anthers less than 1.5 mm; fruiting calyx strongly reflexed; fruit less than 8 mm in diam., shiny; corolla less than 5 mm |
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5 Solanum americanum |
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Anthers more than 2 mm; fruiting calyx reflexed or not; fruit mostly more than 8 mm in diam., somewhat shiny or dull; corolla more than 5 mm. |
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35 (34) |
Fruiting calyx applied to berry; berry dull black; plants copiously and evidently pubescent with erect and spreading hairs; leaves dentate or subentire, ovate to lanceolate |
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7 Solanum nigrum |
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Fruiting calyx reflexed from berry; berry slightly shiny, black or purple; plants with inconspicuous appressed hairs; leaves mostly subentire, ovate, rhomboid, or rounded |
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8 Solanum scabrum |
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36 (28) |
Style pubescent; filaments laterally ciliate; fruit black; leaves sinuate, dentate, or entire, not lobed |
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6 Solanum merrillianum |
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Style and filaments glabrous; fruit red, orange, or yellow; leaves entire or lobed. |
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Leaves pinnately 5-9-parted. |
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Leaves all entire or with 1(-3) pairs of basal lobes. |
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38 (37) |
Plants glabrous; calyx truncate with minute lobes; corolla purple or white; fruit 1-2 cm |
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17 Solanum seaforthianum |
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Plants pubescent; calyx with evident lobes, sinuses deltate; corolla greenish purple; fruit less than 1 cm |
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18 Solanum septemlobum |
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39 (37) |
Stems and inflorescences villous with erect, many-celled hairs more than 2 mm |
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15 Solanum lyratum |
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Stems and inflorescences glabrous or pubescent with ± appressed hairs less than 2 mm. |
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40 (39) |
Anthers connate; leaf base truncate or cordate. |
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Anthers free; leaf base rounded or cuneate. |
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41 (40) |
Herbs; leaves mostly with 1 (or 2) pairs of basal lobes; seeds less than 2.5 mm; calyx lobes deltate |
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11 Solanum dulcamara |
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Subshrubs; leaves entire; seeds more than 2.5 mm; calyx truncate or sinuate, lobes minute, pointed |
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14 Solanum kitagawae |
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Leaves undulate-dentate or lobed; emergent growth with long simple hairs |
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13 Solanum japonense |
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Leaves all entire; emergent growth often glabrous. |
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Leaves puberulent; anthers less than 2 mm; fruit mostly less than 8 mm in diam.; seeds less than 2 mm in diam. |
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12 Solanum hidetaroi |
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Leaves glabrescent; anthers more than 2 mm; fruit mostly more than 8 mm in diam.; seeds more than 2 mm in diam. |
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16 Solanum pittosporifolium |