Solanum quitoense (naranjilla)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Solanum quitoense, photographed by Jake Rehage — fig. a Jake Rehage, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-31 / obs. 174328522

Solanum quitoense, photographed by Dario Taraborelli — fig. b Dario Taraborelli, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174437655

Solanum quitoense, photographed by GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ — fig. c GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161044711

Solanum quitoense, photographed by Ruth Gutiérrez Oliveros — fig. d Ruth Gutiérrez Oliveros, CC0 1.0 / obs. 156831495

Solanum quitoense, photographed by Henrry — fig. e Henrry, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114419554

Solanum quitoense, photographed by Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández — fig. f Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 71377486

Solanum quitoense, photographed by Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez — fig. g Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65798189

Solanum quitoense, photographed by Alan Rockefeller — fig. h Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61761478

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Native distribution of Solanum quitoense, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Colombia	CLM	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Costa Rica	COS
Ecuador	ECU
Galápagos	GAL
Panamá	PAN
Peru	PER
Venezuela	VEN

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 10 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 angulatum Ruiz & Pav.
Solanum macrocarpon Pav. ex Dunal
Solanum macrocarpon Molina
Solanum nollanum Britton
Solanum quitense Kunth
Solanum quitoense f. quitoense
Solanum quitoense f. septentrionale (R.E.Schult. & Cuatrec.) D'Arcy
Solanum quitoense var. quitoense
Solanum quitoense var. septentrionale R.E.Schult. & Cuatrec.
Solanum septentrionale (R.E.Schult. & Cuatrec.) D'Arcy

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