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Taxonavigation

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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

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Solanum emulans Raf. (1840:107)

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

Synonyms

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(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

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Vernacular names

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(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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