Solanum dasyphyllumSchumach. & Thonn.

WFO wfo-0001027396 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Solanum dasyphyllum, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. a Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-20 / obs. 173003786
Solanum dasyphyllum, photographed by Margaret Burger
fig. b Margaret Burger, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 159370464
Solanum dasyphyllum, photographed by Margaret Burger
fig. c Margaret Burger, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 159356153
Solanum dasyphyllum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 34608175
Solanum dasyphyllum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 34607687
Solanum dasyphyllum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 19255545
Solanum dasyphyllum, photographed by Rosemary Harrison
fig. g Rosemary Harrison, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 161668411
Solanum dasyphyllum, photographed by Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan
fig. h Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194444214

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Native range 30 botanical countries

Regions where Solanum dasyphyllum is native: Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Togo, Zambia BeninBurkinaBurundiCameroonCape ProvincesCentral African RepublicChadCongoDR CongoEquatorial GuineaEthiopiaGabonGambiaGhanaGuineaGuinea-BissauGulf of Guinea Is.Ivory CoastKwaZulu-NatalLiberiaMozambiqueNigeriaNorthern ProvincesRwandaSenegalSierra LeoneSomaliaSudan-South SudanTogoZambia
Native distribution of Solanum dasyphyllum, 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
Benin BEN AFRICA
Burkina BKN
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Cape Provinces CPP
Central African Republic CAF
Chad CHA
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Equatorial Guinea EQG
Ethiopia ETH
Gabon GAB
Gambia GAM
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Gulf of Guinea Is. GGI
Ivory Coast IVO
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Liberia LBR
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Senegal SEN
Sierra Leone SIE
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Togo TOG
Zambia ZAM

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 73 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 11.0 °C 14.0 °C 18.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 25.0 °C 26.4 °C 33.1 °C
Annual rainfall 934 mm 1,052 mm 1,660 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 13 mm 102 mm 168 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 73 research-grade observations of Solanum dasyphyllum that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 25 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 acanthoideum Drège ex Dunal
  • Solanum afzelii Dunal
  • Solanum crepidotrichum Bitter
  • Solanum dasyphyllum
  • Solanum dasyphyllum var. brevipedicellatum Bitter
  • Solanum dasyphyllum var. dasyphyllum
  • Solanum dasyphyllum var. decaisneanum A.Schimp. ex Bitter
  • Solanum dasyphyllum var. inerme Bitter
  • Solanum dasyphyllum var. kilimandschari (Dammer) Bitter
  • Solanum dasyphyllum var. natalense Bitter
  • Solanum dasyphyllum var. semiglabrum (C.H.Wright) Bitter
  • Solanum dasyphyllum var. transiens Bitter
  • Solanum decaisneanum A.Schimp. ex Bitter
  • Solanum duplosinuatum Klotzsch
  • Solanum duplosinuatum var. duplosinuatum
  • Solanum duplosinuatum var. semiglabrum C.H.Wright
  • Solanum eickii Dammer
  • Solanum farini Dammer
  • Solanum grandiflorum Vahl ex Dunal
  • Solanum kilimandschari Dammer
  • Solanum macrocarpon subsp. dasyphyllum (Schumach. & Thonn.) Lester & P.-M.L.Jaeger
  • Solanum macrocarpon subsp. sapinii (De Wild.) Bitter
  • Solanum macrocarpon var. hirsutum Dammer ex De Wild. & T.Durand
  • Solanum macrophyllum subsp. dasyphyllum Banfi, Galasso & Bartolucci

and 1 more.

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.