Solanum lanuginosum

"Solanum lanuginosum"
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Lycianthes?
Species: undetermined
Binomial name
"Solanum lanuginosum"
Dunal

"Solanum lanuginosum" is a flowering plant species in the nightshade family (Solanaceae). It probably belongs to those species formerly in Solanum but nowadays placed in Lycianthes, though its exact identity and name remain undetermined.[1]

It is endemic to Ecuador, but may be almost extinct due to habitat loss.[2]

Footnotes

  1. Solanaceae Source [2008]
  2. Montúfar & Pitman (2004)

References


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