Solanum emulans

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Solanales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Lamiids Ordo: Solanales

Familia: Solanaceae
Subfamilia: Solanoideae
Tribus: Solaneae
Genus: Solanum
Subgenus: S. subg. Solanum
Sectio: S. sect. Solanum
Species: Solanum emulans

Name

Solanum emulans Raf. (1840:107)

• Neotype: C.S. Rafinesque s.n. (W, acc. no. 0009388)
• Type location: United States, "Amer. bor.".

Synonyms

(After Knapp & al., 2019)

Heterotypic

• Solanum nigrum var. virginicum L. (1753:186)
• Solanum dillenianum Polg. (1939:281) non S. virginianum
  (1753)
  • Lectotype: [Dillenius, "Solanum nigrum vulgari simile, caulibus exasperates", Hortus Elthamensis 2: 368, t. 275, f. 356. 1732
    • Designated by Edmonds in Jarvis (2007:861).
  • Type locality: Cultivated in England, at James Sherard's garden in Eltham (Hortus Elthamensis), said to be from Virginia.
• Solanum pterocaulum var. heterogonum Dunal (1852:52)
  • Neotype: v.v. hort. Monsp [??] (MPU31070707, MPU)
    • Designated by Knapp et al. (2019).
  • Type location: Cultivated in France at Montpellier.
• Solanum adventitium Polg. (1926:18)
  • Lectotype: S. Polgár 2698 (BP-352743, BP)
  • Isolectotype: B (B100278541), W (acc. no. 1935-0007031]).
    • Designated by Knapp et al. (2019).
  • Type location: Hungary. Györ, Güterbahnhof, 20 Sep 1918.

Excluded names

• Solanum ptycanthum sensu non Dunal (1852) = S. americanum
  Mill.
  • After this species began to be treated as separate from Solanum americanum, S. ptycanthum was the most common name recognized over the forgotten S. emulans. In addition to S. emulans being the older name, S. ptycanthum is now considered a synonym of S. americanum.
    

Note: Often considered as a synonym of Solanum alatum Moench, Methodus: 474 (1794), nom. cons. {Govaerts et al. 2022)

References

• Rafinesque, C.S. (1840) Autikon botanikon. Philadelphia.
• Dunal, M.F. 1852. Solanaceae. In Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis 13(1): 1–690. V. Masson, Paris. BHL. Reference page. 
• Jarvis, C.E. 2007. Order out of Chaos: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types. London: Linnean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, ISBN 978-0-9506207-7-0, 1016 pp. Reference page. 
• Knapp, S., Barboza, G.E., Bohs, L. & Särkinen, T. 2019. A revision of the Morelloid Clade of Solanum L. (Solanaceae) in North and Central America and the Caribbean. PhytoKeys 123:1–144. DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.123.31738 . Reference page. 
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Solanum emulans in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Oct. 7. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2022. Solanum emulans. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 7 Oct. 2022.
• Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum. Tomus I: 186. Reference page. 
• Polgár, S. (1926) Neue Beiträge zue Adventivflora von Györ (Westungarn) III. Magyar Bot. Lapok 24:15–23.
• Polgár, S. [1939](1940) Solanum Dillenianum. Acta Horti Gothob. 13–14:281–288.

Vernacular names

(Knapp & al., 2019)

English: greenspot nightshade, Arizona nightshade, Douglas's horse-nettle, Douglas's nightshade
español: hierba mora, yerba mora, chichequelite, chichicalite, tomaquilit, tomatillo, teconchichi

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