Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Solanum juvenale
Solanaceae Juss.
Solanum juvenale Thell. , legitimate, scientific
Thellung, A. (1908), Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 5: 161 BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Patria ignota (an Australia?); introductum (cum lanis) in Galliam meridionalem prope Monspelium".
misapplication: Solanum sodomeum L. nom. rej. by Coste, H.J. (1901), Flore Descriptive et Illustree de la France 2(1): 5
Symon, D.E. (1970), A note on Solanum juvenale Thell. and Solanum meloncillo Parodi. Darwiniana 16: 411-413 [secondary reference]
Symon, D.E. (14 August 1981), A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 4: 313 [secondary reference]
  • Text: "It was suggested by Thellung that this species which he considered related to S. cinereum R. Br. might be an Australian species adventive in southern France. It has been shown by Symon (1970) to be a South American species."
Wahlert, G.A., Chiarini, F.E. & Bohs, L. (2015), A revision of Solanum section Lathyrocarpum (the Carolinense Clade, Solanaceae). Systematic Botany 40(3): 878-880, Fig. 4 (map) [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "designated here: MPU–MPU022907!; isolectotypes: CAS–CAS0005763 [scan!], MPU– MPU022904!, MPU–MPU022905!)."
  • Etymology: "The species is named for the old Port of Juvénal on the River Lez, near Montpellier, France."
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: A South American taxon recorded by A.Thellung, Repert. Spec. Nov. Reg. Veg. 5: 161 (1908) as a taxon doubtfully of Australian origin introduced to France.