Solanum didymumDunal

WFO wfo-0001027559 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Solanum didymum, photographed by Non_Praying_Mantis
fig. a Non_Praying_Mantis, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-12 / obs. 115670909
Solanum didymum, photographed by Giovanni Marques de Castro
fig. b Giovanni Marques de Castro, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 706562
Solanum didymum, photographed by Márcia Martins
fig. c Márcia Martins, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61003614
Solanum didymum, photographed by Giovanni Marques de Castro
fig. d Giovanni Marques de Castro, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 706574
Solanum didymum, photographed by Non_Praying_Mantis
fig. e Non_Praying_Mantis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115670958
Solanum didymum, photographed by Márcia Martins
fig. f Márcia Martins, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61003635
Solanum didymum, photographed by Márcia Martins
fig. g Márcia Martins, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61003604
Solanum didymum, photographed by Non_Praying_Mantis
fig. h Non_Praying_Mantis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115670934

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Solanum didymum is native: Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central Argentina NortheastBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-Central
Native distribution of Solanum didymum, 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 Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC

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 22 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.

  • Capsicum inaequale Vell.
  • Cliocarpus gardneri Miers
  • Solanum cladotrichodes Mart. ex Sendtn.
  • Solanum didymum var. didymum
  • Solanum didymum var. subglabrum Dunal
  • Solanum didymum var. subvirgatum Witasek
  • Solanum didymum var. tomentosum Dunal
  • Solanum divaricatum Dunal
  • Solanum eriocalyx Dunal
  • Solanum gemellum Mart. ex Sendtn.
  • Solanum gemellum var. gemellum
  • Solanum laxum Dunal
  • Solanum megalochiton Mart.
  • Solanum megalochiton var. megalochiton
  • Solanum megalochiton var. villoso-tomentosum Dunal
  • Solanum megalochitonium St.-Lag.
  • Solanum miersii Taub.
  • Solanum nevesarmondii Dusén
  • Solanum pseudomegalochiton Witasek
  • Solanum pseudomegalochiton var. dunalii Witasek
  • Solanum pseudomegalochiton var. pseudomegalochiton
  • Solanum trichocalyx Dunal & A.DC.

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.