Taxonavigation

Familia: Solanaceae
Subfamilia: Solanoideae
Tribus: Solaneae
Genus: Solanum
Subgenus: S. subg. Leptostemonum
Species: Solanum rigidum

Name

Solanum rigidum Lam. (1794:23)

• Lectotype: s.c. s.n. (P00357615, P)
  • Designated by Knapp (2013).
• Type location: Cultivated in the Jardin du Roi in Paris, origin unknown.

Synonyms

• Solanum latifolium Lam. (1797:303)
  • Type: No specimen cited or located (Knapp, 2013).
  • Type location: Cultivated in the Jardin du Roi in Paris, origin unknown (suspected, wrongly, from America: see Knapp, 2013).
• Solanum heteracanthum Dunal (1814:773)
  • Lectotype: DuPuis s.n. (P00344411, P)
    • Designated by Knapp (2013).
  • Type location: "Africa?".

Excluded names

• Solanum fuscatum L. (1762:268), nom. rej.
  • For a long time, this was considered the correct name for S. rigidum. However, confusion as to its geographical origins and application lead to it being proposed (Knapp, 2011) and accepted (Applequist, 2012) for rejection.

References

• Applequist, W.L. (2012). "Report of the Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants: 64." Taxon 61 (5):1108–1117. JSTOR. DOI: 10.1002/tax.615019.

• Dunal, M.F. (1814) "Solanum". In: Lamarck, J.-B. & Poiret, J.L.M. (eds.). Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique. Supplement 3. pp. 738–780. Paris: H. Agasse. BHL. Reference page. 
• Knapp, S. (2011). "(2042, 2043) Proposal to reject the names Solanum ferox L. and S. fuscatum L. (Solanaceae)." Taxon 60 (6):1782–1783. JSTOR. DOI: 10.1002/tax.606032.
• Knapp, S. & Vorontsova, M.S. (2013). "From introduced American weed to Cape Verde Islands endemic: the case of Solanum rigidum Lam. (Solanaceae, Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum)." PhytoKeys 25:35–46. DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.25.4692.

• Lamarck, J.-B. 1794–1819 ["1793"]. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Botanique. Tome second. 551 pp., tt. 112–445. Panckoucke, Paris. BHL Biblioteca Digital Reference page. 

• Lamarck, J.-B. (ed.) 1797–1798. Encyclopédie méthodique. Botanique. Tome 4. 764 pp. H. Agasse, Paris. BHL Reference page. 

• Linnaeus, C. 1762. Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. Tomus I, Ed. 2. Pp. [I–XVI], 1–784. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae [Stockholm]. BHL Reference page.