''Solanum capsicoides'', the cockroach berry, known as ''polohauai'i'' in
Polynesia
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, is a
flowering plant
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in the family
Solanaceae
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. It is native to eastern
Brazil
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but naturalized in other
tropical
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the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...
regions, where it sometimes becomes an
invasive weed.
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Synonyms
This species had been included in ''
S. aculeatissimum'' as
variety
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''denudatum'' by
Dunal (''Solanum denudatum'' of Bitter is ''
S. humile'' as described by
Lamarck
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). It was also included in the
eggplant
Eggplant ( US, Canada), aubergine ( UK, Ireland) or brinjal (Indian subcontinent, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa) is a plant species in the nightshade family Solanaceae. ''Solanum melongena'' is grown worldwide for its edible fruit.
Mo ...
(''S. melongena'') under its
junior synonym
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''S. trongum'' (as var. ''sinuato-pinnatifidum''), also by Dunal.
[Solanaceae Source (2006)]
In addition, the cockroach berry is sometimes referenced under the following obsolete names:
* ''Solanum arrebenta''
Vell.
* ''Solanum bodinieri''
H.Lév. & Vaniot
* ''Solanum capsicoides''
Hort. Paris ex Lam. (preoccupied)
* ''Solanum ciliare''
Willd.
* ''Solanum ciliatum''
Lam.
:''S. ciliatum'' of Blume from
F.A.W. Miquel is an undetermined species of ''
Lycianthes
''Lycianthes'' is a genus of plants from the nightshade family (Solanaceae), found in both the Old World and the New World, but predominantly in the latter. It contains roughly 150 species, mostly from tropical America, with 35-40 species in Asia ...
''.
* ''Solanum ciliatum'' var. ''arenarium''
Dunal
:''S. arenarium'' of Schur is ''
S. villosum'' as described by
Philip Miller
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.
:''S. arenarium'' of
Otto Sendtner Otto Sendtner (27 June 1813 – 21 April 1859) was a German botanist and phytogeographer born in Munich.
He received his education at the University of Munich, where he was a student of Karl Friedrich Schimper (1803–1867). Afterwards he ser ...
is a valid species
* ''Solanum macowanii''
Fourc.
* ''Solanum pentapetaloides''
Roxb. ex Hornem.
:''S. pentapetaloides'' of Bojer from Dunal in
de Candolle is ''
S. imamense''.
* ''Solanum pentapetalum''
Schltdl.
* ''Solanum sinuatifolium''
Vell.
* ''Solanum sphaerocarpum''
Moric.
References
Footnotes
* (2007)
''Solanum capsicoides'' Version of 2007-MAR-21. Retrieved 2007-SEP-15.
* (2006)
''Solanum sessiliflorum'' Version of May 2006. Retrieved 2008-SEP-26.
capsicoides
Taxa named by Carlo Allioni
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