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|accepted_name=Solanum davisense
|accepted_authority=Whalen
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Wrightia
|place=5: 234, fig. 35. 1976
|year=1976
}}
|common_names=Davis horsenettle
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Solanaceae;Solanum;Solanum davisense
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Solanaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Solanum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Solanum davisense]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, erect, moderately armed, 0.4–0.8 m, prickles whitish or yellowish, straight, needlelike, 3–15 mm, moderately to densely pubescent, hairs unbranched, glandular and eglandular, abaxial leaf surfaces also with sessile, few-rayed, stellate hairs, central ray equal to or longer than lateral rays. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate; petiole 2–6 cm; blade simple to compound, broadly ovate, 5–10 × 2.5–8 cm, margins 2–3 times lobed or divided with 3–4 main leaflets per side, leaflets with acute lobes, base truncate. <b>Inflorescences</b> extra-axillary, unbranched, 5–9-flowered, 4–7 cm. <b>Pedicels</b> 1–1.5 cm in flower, 1–1.5 cm and erect in fruit. <b>Flowers</b> bilaterally symmetric; calyx accrescent and tightly covering fruit, densely prickly, 3–5 mm, densely pubescent, lobes linear; corolla violet or blue, pentagonal-stellate, 1.4–2 cm diam., with interpetalar tissue at the margins and bases of lobes; stamens unequal, lowermost much longer and curved; anthers narrow and tapered, dehiscent by terminal pores, short anthers yellow, 4–5.5 mm, longer anther purplish, 5.5–8.5 mm; ovary glabrous. <b>Berries</b> brown, globose, 0.8–1 cm diam., glabrous, dry, without sclerotic granules. <b>Seeds</b> dark brown, flattened, 2.6–3 × 2–2.5 mm, minutely pitted. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Igneous soils, sand or gravel streambeds.
|elevation=900–2100 m.
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila).
|discussion=<p>In Texas, Solanum davisense is known only from the Chinati, Chisos, and Davis mountains.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Solanum davisense
|authority=Whalen
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Solanaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Igneous soils, sand or gravel streambeds.
|elevation=900–2100 m.
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila).
|reference=None
|publication title=Wrightia
|publication year=1976
|special status=
|source xml=
|genus=Solanum
|species=Solanum davisense
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