Solanum peruvianumL.

Peruvian nightshade

WFO wfo-0001030336 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Solanum peruvianum, photographed by capacoscar
fig. a capacoscar, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-11-17 / obs. 104729339
Solanum peruvianum, photographed by cstobie
fig. b cstobie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50701363
Solanum peruvianum, photographed by cstobie
fig. c cstobie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32102245
Solanum peruvianum, photographed by cstobie
fig. d cstobie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31592601
Solanum peruvianum, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. e Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 16219998
Solanum peruvianum, photographed by cstobie
fig. f cstobie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18209974
Solanum peruvianum, photographed by cstobie
fig. g cstobie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18771630
Solanum peruvianum, photographed by cstobie
fig. h cstobie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18771134

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Solanum peruvianum is native: Chile North, Ecuador, Galápagos, Peru Chile NorthEcuadorPeru Galápagos
Native distribution of Solanum peruvianum, 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
Chile North CLN SOUTHERN AMERICA
Ecuador ECU
Galápagos GAL
Peru PER

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 17 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.

  • Antimion tomentosum Raf.
  • Lycopersicon commutatum (Spreng.) Roem. & Schult.
  • Lycopersicon dentatum Dunal
  • Lycopersicon peruvianum (L.) Mill.
  • Lycopersicon peruvianum subsp. commutatum (Spreng.) Luckwill
  • Lycopersicon peruvianum subsp. dentatum (Dunal) Luckwill
  • Lycopersicon peruvianum subsp. peruvianum
  • Lycopersicon peruvianum subsp. typicum Luckwill
  • Lycopersicon peruvianum var. dentatum (Dunal) Dunal
  • Lycopersicon peruvianum var. peruvianum
  • Lycopersicon peruvianum var. regulare (Dunal) Luckwill
  • Lycopersicon peruvinanum var. commutatum (Spreng.) Link, Klotzsch & Otto
  • Lycopersicon peruvinanum var. peruvinanum
  • Lycopersicon regulare Dunal
  • Scubulon incanum Raf.
  • Solanum commutatum Spreng.
  • Solanum peruvianum Jacq.

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.

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