Solanum laxumSpreng.

jasmine nightshade

WFO wfo-0001029006 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Solanum laxum, photographed by Daniel Dias
fig. a Daniel Dias, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-28 / obs. 201398634
Solanum laxum, photographed by Grey Smith
fig. b Grey Smith, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196336758
Solanum laxum, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. c Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195594962
Solanum laxum, photographed by Jaco Grundling
fig. d Jaco Grundling, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192695892
Solanum laxum, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. e Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195571651
Solanum laxum, photographed by Fernando Sessegolo
fig. f Fernando Sessegolo, CC0 1.0 / obs. 177472903
Solanum laxum, photographed by Grey Smith
fig. g Grey Smith, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176408299
Solanum laxum, photographed by Andrea Gantzer
fig. h Andrea Gantzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166690052

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Solanum laxum is native: Argentina Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Paraguay, Uruguay Argentina NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralParaguayUruguay
Native distribution of Solanum laxum, 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
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Paraguay PAR
Uruguay URU

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 183 in flower of 189 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Solanum laxum 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. 183 of 189 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 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 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 boerhaviifolium Sendtn.
  • Solanum boerhaviifolium var. boerhaviifolium
  • Solanum boerhaviifolium var. calvum C.V.Morton
  • Solanum cynanchoides Dunal
  • Solanum dietrichiae Domin
  • Solanum integrifolia Paxton
  • Solanum jasminoides Paxton
  • Solanum jasminoides f. integrifolia Paxton
  • Solanum jasminoides f. jasminoides
  • Solanum jasminoides var. boerhaviifolium (Sendtn.) Kuntze
  • Solanum jasminoides var. glaberrimum Kuntze
  • Solanum jasminoides var. glaberriumum Kuntze
  • Solanum jasminoides var. jasminoides
  • Solanum jasminoides var. normale Kuntze
  • Solanum jasminoides var. pilosum Kuntze
  • Solanum jasminoides var. pubinerve Kuntze

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol SOJA7. public domain. 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.

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