Solanaceae Juss.
Solanum L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 184 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: (not designated).
Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 85 [secondary reference]
Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 446 [secondary reference]
Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 442 BHL [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 95 [secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 221-223 [secondary reference]
common name: Nightshades [n/a]
Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 133-134 [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 495-496 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Latin name of S. nigrum, the Black Nightshade."
Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 744 [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: 400 [secondary reference]
Baylis, G.T.S. (1963), A cytogenetic study of the Solanum aviculare species complex. Australian Journal of Botany 11: 168-177 [secondary reference]
Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 270-271 [secondary reference]
Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 503-504 [secondary reference]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 320-322 [secondary reference]
D'Arcy, W.G. (1972), Solanaceae Studies II: Typification of Subdivisions of Solanum. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 59: 27 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: Solanum nigrum L.
Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2: 548-549 [secondary reference]
Henderson, R.J.F. (1974), Solanum nigrum L. (Solanaceae) and Related Species in Australia. Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium 16: 1-78 [secondary reference]
Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 869, 893, 895 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 203 [secondary reference]
Symon, D.E. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Solanum. Flora of Central Australia: 314-315 [secondary reference]
Symon, D.E. (14 August 1981), A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 4: 1-367 [secondary reference]
Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae. Flora of Australia 29: 69-175 [secondary reference]
Edmonds, J.M. (1986), Biosystematics of Solanum sarrachoides Sendtner and S. physalifolium Rusby (S. nitidibaccatum Bitter). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 92: 1-38 [secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Solanaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 407-411 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Solanaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 533-534 [secondary reference]
Symon, D.E. (7 August 1987), Placentation Patterns and Seed Numbers in Solanum (Solanaceae) Fruits. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 10(2): 179-199 [secondary reference]
Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Solanaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 352 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Solanaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 723-724 [secondary reference]
Barker, R.M. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Solanaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 336-337 [secondary reference]
Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Solanaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 344-348 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 891 [secondary reference]
Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 519 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Lycopersicon Mill. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Androcera Nutt. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyphomandra Mart. ex Sendtn. legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), CoI, ChI, NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised)
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 804-806 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Lycopersicon Mill. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyphomandra Mart. ex Sendtn. legitimate