Solanum ellipticumR.Br.

WFO wfo-0001027792 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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 ellipticum, photographed by elawrey
fig. a elawrey, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-10-25 / obs. 103324757
Solanum ellipticum, photographed by elawrey
fig. b elawrey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103324703
Solanum ellipticum, photographed by elawrey
fig. c elawrey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103324738
Solanum ellipticum, photographed by elawrey
fig. d elawrey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103324770
Solanum ellipticum, photographed by elawrey
fig. e elawrey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103324803
Solanum ellipticum, photographed by elawrey
fig. f elawrey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103324823
Solanum ellipticum, photographed by elawrey
fig. g elawrey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103324855
Solanum ellipticum, photographed by elawrey
fig. h elawrey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103324879

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Solanum ellipticum is native: New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia New South WalesNorthern TerritoryQueenslandSouth AustraliaWestern Australia
Native distribution of Solanum ellipticum, 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
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Northern Territory NTA
Queensland QLD
South Australia SOA
Western Australia WAU

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.

Flowering 53 in flower of 55 examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Solanum ellipticum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 53 of 55 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 7 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 albiflora Domin
  • Solanum albiflorum Domin
  • Solanum biflorum R.Br.
  • Solanum dianthophorum Dunal
  • Solanum ellipticum f. ellipticum
  • Solanum ellipticum var. ellipticum
  • Solanum ellipticum var. mollibaccalis J.M.Black

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.