Solanum pinnatumCav.

WFO wfo-0001030430 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Solanum pinnatum, photographed by nitsuga74
fig. a nitsuga74, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-10 / obs. 179013293
Solanum pinnatum, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal
fig. b Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165861318
Solanum pinnatum, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal
fig. c Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165861390
Solanum pinnatum, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal
fig. d Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165861333
Solanum pinnatum, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal
fig. e Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165676258
Solanum pinnatum, photographed by Nicolás Lavandero
fig. f Nicolás Lavandero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170273747
Solanum pinnatum, photographed by David Gutiérrez
fig. g David Gutiérrez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160887607
Solanum pinnatum, photographed by Francisco E. Fonturbel
fig. h Francisco E. Fonturbel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156141021

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Solanum pinnatum is native: Chile Central Chile Central
Native distribution of Solanum pinnatum, 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
Chile Central CLC SOUTHERN AMERICA

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 24 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 albiflorum Phil.
  • Solanum cavanillesii Dunal
  • Solanum cavanillesii var. cavanillesii
  • Solanum cavanillesii var. subintegrifolium Dunal
  • Solanum dunalii Phil.
  • Solanum feuillei Dunal
  • Solanum gaudichaudiana (J.Rémy) F.Phil.
  • Solanum gaudichaudii Dunal
  • Solanum gaudichaudii var. gaudichaudii
  • Solanum gaudichaudii var. viride Dunal
  • Solanum maritimum Meyen ex Nees
  • Solanum novemlobum Dunal
  • Solanum novemlobum var. novemlobum
  • Solanum novemlobum var. pauciflorum Dunal
  • Solanum pinnatum Bertero ex Dunal
  • Solanum pinnatum var. pinnatum
  • Solanum pinnatum var. subintegrifolium (Dunal) Reiche
  • Solanum pinnatum var. tomentosum Reiche
  • Solanum quercifolium Poepp. ex Dunal
  • Solanum runcinatum Ruiz & Pav.
  • Solanum septemlobum Phil.
  • Witheringia gaudichaudiana J.Rémy
  • Witheringia maritima (Meyen) J.Rémy
  • Witheringia pinnata (Cav.) J.Rémy

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.

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