Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 446 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(J.) v.v."

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 459 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 96 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 223 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 357 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 135, 240 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 402 [secondary reference]

Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2: 554 [secondary reference]

common name: Eastern Nightshade [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 204 [secondary reference]

Symon, D.E. (14 August 1981), A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 4: 235-236, Figs 103, 155B, 165D, Map 2 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "The collection at BM bears the Bennett number 2679. ... and is here selected as the lectotype. Isolectotypes are at K, two sheets, and P."

Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae. Flora of Australia 29: 154-155, Fig. 25E-F, Map 154 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: NSW, Vic

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Solanaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 365 [secondary reference]

common name: Eastern Nightshade [n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Solanaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 357, 359, Fig. 69f [secondary reference]

common name: Eastern Nightshade [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Solanum pungentium W.A.Dixon orth. var.

• APC Dist.: NSW, Vic

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