Solanum prinophyllum

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Solanum prinophyllum, photographed by James K. Douch — fig. c James K. Douch, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 175991927

Solanum prinophyllum, photographed by ianrainbow — fig. e ianrainbow, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163915814

Solanum prinophyllum, photographed by Gary Williams — fig. f Gary Williams, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 143796808

Solanum prinophyllum, photographed by Will Cornwell — fig. h Will Cornwell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107707001

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Solanum prinophyllum, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
New South Wales	NSW	AUSTRALASIA
Queensland	QLD
Victoria	VIC

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 107 in flower of 189 examined

68%

45%

57%

62%

14%

30%

65%

67%

84%

67%

54%

Proportion of examined Solanum prinophyllum in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	15	22	68%	47% to 84%
Feb	5	11	45%	21% to 72%
Mar	8	14	57%	33% to 79%
Apr	8	13	62%	36% to 82%
May	0	15	0%	0% to 20%
Jun	1	7	14%	3% to 51%
Jul	3	10	30%	11% to 60%
Aug	11	17	65%	41% to 83%
Sep	18	27	67%	48% to 81%
Oct	21	25	84%	65% to 94%
Nov	10	15	67%	42% to 85%
Dec	7	13	54%	29% to 77%

Peak flowering in Oct. Each bar is the share of Solanum prinophyllum 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. 107 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 3 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 armatum R.Br.
Solanum armatum var. cultum Dunal
Solanum pungetium Sieber ex Dunal

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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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