Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (3 September 1814), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique Suppl. 3(2): 769 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Cette plante croit a la Nouvelle-Hollande. (Dunal, in herb. Mus. Paris.)"

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 461 [secondary reference]

Symon, D.E. (14 August 1981), A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 4: 146-147, Figs 53, 151L, 162K, Map 20b [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Holotype: Not traced. There is at MPU in the Herb. Dunal an unpublished plate, Dunal, Sol. ic. ined. t. 58 (photo ADW), labelled S. elegans with no other information. ... I propose this plate as the iconotype for S. elegans Dunal."

taxonomic synonym: Solanum amblymerum Dunal legitimate taxonomic synonym: Solanum violaceum var. amblymerum (Dunal) Maiden & Betche legitimate

Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae. Flora of Australia 29: 130, Map 113 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Solanum amblymerum Dunal legitimate taxonomic synonym: Solanum violaceum var. amblymerum (Dunal) Maiden & Betche legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Solanaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 427, Fig. 59D [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Solanum amblymerum Dunal legitimate taxonomic synonym: Solanum violaceum var. amblymerum (Dunal) Maiden & Betche legitimate

Williams, K.A.W. (1987), Native Plants of Queensland 3: 284 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Solanaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 361 [secondary reference]

common name: Spiny Kangaroo Apple [n/a]

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]

Bean, A.R. (5 January 2002), A revision of Solanum brownii Dunal (Solanaceae) and its allies. Telopea 9(3): 650 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Solanum brownii Dunal legitimate

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): 780 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Solanum limitare A.R.Bean legitimate by Symon, D.E. (14 August 1981), A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 4: 146-147, Figs 53, 151L, 162K, Map 20b

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Solanum limitare A.R.Bean legitimate by Symon, D.E. (14 August 1981), A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 4: 146-147, Figs 53, 151L, 162K, Map 20b

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Solanum brownii Dunal legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Solanum amblymerum Dunal legitimate by Symon, D.E. (14 August 1981), A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 4: 146-147, Figs 53, 151L, 162K, Map 20b

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Solanum amblymerum Dunal legitimate by Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae. Flora of Australia 29: 130, Map 113

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