Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

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Showing Solanum ossicruentum

Solanaceae Juss.

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21-27, Figs 1-2, 3 (map) APC

[tax. nov.]

Type: "AUSTRALIA. Western Australia: Mirima (Hidden Valley) National Park, below upper lookout on Derdbe-Gerring Banan Lookout Trail, 15°45.827'S, 128°45.105'E, 18 May 2014 (staminate and “female” flowers; fruit), Christopher T. Martine and Rachel F. Martine 4011 (holotype: DNA; isotypes: PERTH, BUPL, CONN)"

Etymology: "The name Solanum ossicruentum was chosen based on suggestions from middle school students in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA. In the spring of 2015, CTM presented live plants of the taxon to an assembly of 150 seventh-grade life science students at Donald H. Eichhorn Middle School. The students, with the help of Mr. Bradley Catherman, were invited to examine the plants, ask questions, and then submit an essay proposing and justifying a potential Latin name for the putative new species. Numerous students were drawn to and suggested names based on the characteristics of the fruits, which stain blood red when cut open before maturity and then mature to a dry, bony condition. Thus ossi- is used for “bone” and -cruentum for “bloody.”"

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