Solanum lanceifoliumJacq.

lanceleaf nightshade

WFO wfo-0001028934 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 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 lanceifolium, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. a Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-05-26 / obs. 18697611
Solanum lanceifolium, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. b Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24032966
Solanum lanceifolium, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. c Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23250681
Solanum lanceifolium, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. d Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24032970
Solanum lanceifolium, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. e Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23250692

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Solanum lanceifolium is native: Florida, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. FloridaMexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeColombiaCosta RicaDominican RepublicGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáPeruPuerto RicoTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Cayman Is.Leeward Is.Venezuelan AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Solanum lanceifolium, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Cayman Is. CAY
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Dominican Republic DOM
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Windward Is. WIN
Florida FLA NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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 23 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 ambiguum Dunal
  • Solanum brachyacanthum Dunal
  • Solanum calvefactum Dunal
  • Solanum crotonoides Sieber ex C.Presl
  • Solanum enoplocalyx var. mexicanum Dunal
  • Solanum flexuosum Vahl
  • Solanum hoffmannii Bitter ex Standl. & C.V.Morton
  • Solanum inaequale C.Presl
  • Solanum lanceifolium var. brachyacanthum (Dunal) O.E.Schulz
  • Solanum lanceifolium var. litorale O.E.Schulz
  • Solanum lanceifolium var. punctato-maculatum Dunal
  • Solanum lanceifolium var. tetrandrum G.Don
  • Solanum lasianthum Dunal
  • Solanum micracanthos Lam.
  • Solanum micranthum D.Dietr.
  • Solanum obscurum Sieber ex Dunal
  • Solanum pavonii Dunal
  • Solanum preslei A.DC. ex Dunal
  • Solanum sarmentosum Lam.
  • Solanum scandens Sw.
  • Solanum totonacum Sessé & Moc.
  • Solanum umbrosum Dunal
  • Solanum volubile Thibaud ex Dunal

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.