White, C.T. (1939), Contributions to the Queensland Flora, No. 6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 50: 82 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Mount Spurgeon, common along tracks and on the edge of clearings in rain forest, C.T. White, No. 10619 (flowering specimens), September, 1936 (large straggling bushes, 3–4 m. high, flowers mauve)."

Symon, D.E. (14 August 1981), A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 4: 252-253, Figs 111, 156E, 165L, Map 12 [secondary reference]

Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae. Flora of Australia 29: 160, Fig. 28G, Map 164 [secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2: 52 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 312 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999), Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs. Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs: 88 [secondary reference]

Bean, A.R. & Henderson, R.J.F. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Solanaceae. Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens: 189 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 520-521 [secondary reference]

common name: Nightshade [n/a]

Bean, A.R. (6 December 2004), The taxonomy and ecology of Solanum subg. Leptostemonum (Dunal) Bitter (Solanaceae) in Queensland and far north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. Austrobaileya 6(4): 752-753, Map 2 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Comment: Considered introduced by D.E.Symon, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 4: 252 (1981) but treated as native by A.R.Bean, Austrobaileya 6: 752 (2004)
• APC Dist.: Qld

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