Solanum terminaleForssk.

WFO wfo-0001031701 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Solanum terminale, photographed by Ricardo Lima
fig. a Ricardo Lima, CC0 1.0 / 2016-06-11 / obs. 170842827
Solanum terminale, photographed by Dave Richardson
fig. b Dave Richardson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190025286
Solanum terminale, photographed by Ricardo Lima
fig. c Ricardo Lima, CC0 1.0 / obs. 170842927
Solanum terminale, photographed by Ricardo Lima
fig. d Ricardo Lima, CC0 1.0 / obs. 170840969
Solanum terminale, photographed by Dave Richardson
fig. e Dave Richardson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190025314
Solanum terminale, photographed by Ricardo Lima
fig. f Ricardo Lima, CC0 1.0 / obs. 170840992
Solanum terminale, photographed by Dave Richardson
fig. g Dave Richardson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190025217
Solanum terminale, photographed by Ricardo Lima
fig. h Ricardo Lima, CC0 1.0 / obs. 170842702

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Native range 37 botanical countries

Regions where Solanum terminale is native: Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, Yemen AngolaBeninBurundiCameroonCape ProvincesCentral African RepublicCongoDR CongoEquatorial GuineaEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaGabonGhanaGuineaGuinea-BissauGulf of Guinea Is.Ivory CoastKenyaKwaZulu-NatalLiberiaMalawiMozambiqueNigeriaNorthern ProvincesRwandaSierra LeoneSomaliaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaTogoUgandaZambiaZimbabweSaudi ArabiaYemen Comoros
Native distribution of Solanum terminale, 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
Angola ANG AFRICA
Benin BEN
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Cape Provinces CPP
Central African Republic CAF
Comoros COM
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Equatorial Guinea EQG
Eritrea ERI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Gabon GAB
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Gulf of Guinea Is. GGI
Ivory Coast IVO
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Liberia LBR
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Sierra Leone SIE
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM
Saudi Arabia SAU ASIA-TEMPERATE
Yemen YEM

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 75 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 aculeolatum Dammer
  • Solanum balboanum Chiov.
  • Solanum bansoense Dammer
  • Solanum bansoense subsp. bansoense
  • Solanum bansoense subsp. sanaganum Bitter
  • Solanum bansoense var. episporadotrichum Bitter
  • Solanum bifurcatum Hochst. ex A.Rich.
  • Solanum bifurcum Hochst. ex Dunal
  • Solanum bifurcum var. bifurcum
  • Solanum bilabiatum Dammer
  • Solanum buchwaldii Dammer
  • Solanum butaguense De Wild.
  • Solanum campanuliflorum C.H.Wright
  • Solanum comorense Dammer
  • Solanum hemisymphyes Bitter
  • Solanum holtzii Dammer
  • Solanum inconstans C.H.Wright
  • Solanum lateritium Dammer
  • Solanum laurentii Dammer
  • Solanum leucanthum Bitter & Dammer
  • Solanum leucanthum Dammer
  • Solanum lianiforme De Wild.
  • Solanum lujaei De Wild. & T.Durand
  • Solanum lykipiense C.H.Wright

and 51 more.

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.