Solanum acauleBitter

WFO wfo-0001025669 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 5 separate observations

Solanum acaule, photographed by cstobie
fig. a cstobie, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-03-26 / obs. 34588445
Solanum acaule, photographed by Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros
fig. b Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros, CC0 1.0 / obs. 70422372
Solanum acaule, photographed by Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros
fig. c Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros, CC0 1.0 / obs. 114241974
Solanum acaule, photographed by Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros
fig. d Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros, CC0 1.0 / obs. 113838473
Solanum acaule, photographed by Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros
fig. e Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros, CC0 1.0 / obs. 59783412

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Solanum acaule is native: Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Chile North, Peru Argentina NorthwestBoliviaChile NorthPeru
Native distribution of Solanum acaule, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Chile North CLN
Peru PER

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 16 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Solanum acaule f. acaule
  • Solanum acaule f. incuyo Ochoa
  • Solanum acaule subsp. acaule
  • Solanum acaule subsp. punae (Juz.) Hawkes & Hjert.
  • Solanum acaule var. acaule
  • Solanum acaule var. caulescens Bitter
  • Solanum acaule var. checcae Hawkes
  • Solanum acaule var. punae (Juz.) Hawkes
  • Solanum acaule var. subexinterruptum Bitter
  • Solanum depexum Juz.
  • Solanum depexum var. chorruense Hawkes
  • Solanum depexum var. depexum
  • Solanum incuyo Ochoa
  • Solanum punae Juz.
  • Solanum schreiteri Bukasov
  • Solanum uyunense Cárdenas

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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