Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 185 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Habitat in Europae sepibus humentibus."

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 504 [secondary reference]

common name: Bittersweet [n/a] common name: Woody Nightshade [n/a]

Symon, D.E. (14 August 1981), A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 4: 61, Figs 11, 148P, 159P [secondary reference]

Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae. Flora of Australia 29: 103, Map 79 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Tas (naturalised)

Buchanan, A.M. in Buchanan, A.M. (ed.) (1999), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania Edn. 3: 48 [secondary reference]

Knapp, S. (2013), A revision of the Dulcamaroid Clade of Solanum L. (Solanaceae). Phytokeys 22: 105-129, Figs 35, 36 (map) [secondary reference]

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 78 [secondary reference]

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