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|accepted_name=Solanum campechiense
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 187. 1753
|year=1753
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|common_names=Redberry nightshade
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|hierarchy=Solanaceae;Solanum;Solanum campechiense
|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 campechiense]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, usually spreading, densely armed, to 0.5(–1) m, prickles pale yellow, straight, to 10 mm, sparsely to densely tomentose, hairs nearly sessile to thick-stalked, stellate, 4–9-rayed, central ray equal to or slightly longer than lateral rays. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate; petiole 1–5 cm; blade simple, ovate, 4–13 × 3–12 cm, margins deeply lobed with 2–4 lobes per side, these with additional coarse, acute teeth or shallow lobes, base cordate. <b>Inflorescences</b> extra-axillary, unbranched, 1–3(–6)-flowered, 0.5–2(–5) cm. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.5–1 cm in flower, 1–2 cm in fruit. <b>Flowers</b> radially symmetric; calyx somewhat accrescent and partially covering fruit, densely prickly, 4–6 mm, densely stellate-pubescent, lobes narrowly triangular; corolla white, bluish white, blue, or lilac, rotate-campanulate, 1–1.5 cm diam., with abundant interpetalar tissue; stamens equal; anthers narrow and tapered, 2–5 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores; ovary glabrous. <b>Berries</b> purplish, greenish, or yellowish, globose, 1.5–2 cm diam., glabrous, without sclerotic granules. <b>Seeds</b> yellowish brown, flattened, 1.8–3 × 1.4–2 mm, pustulate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Feb–Dec.
|habitat=Muddy edges of ephemeral lakes and streams, tropical and subtropical dry forest.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Muddy edges of ephemeral lakes and streams;tropical and subtropical dry forest;Tex.;Mexico (Chiapas;Jalisco;Oaxaca;Tamaulipas;Veracruz;Yucatán);West Indies;Central America (Belize;Costa Rica;El Salvador;Guatemala;Honduras);South America (Ecuador;Peru).
|discussion=<p>In the flora region, Solanum campechiense is found in southernmost Texas. Although D. S. Correll and M. C. Johnston (1970) stated that the fruits are cherry-red at maturity, the specimens seen indicate that they turn purplish when ripe.</p>
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name=Solanum campechiense
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Solanaceae
|phenology=Flowering Feb–Dec.
|habitat=Muddy edges of ephemeral lakes and streams, tropical and subtropical dry forest.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Muddy edges of ephemeral lakes and streams;tropical and subtropical dry forest;Tex.;Mexico (Chiapas;Jalisco;Oaxaca;Tamaulipas;Veracruz;Yucatán);West Indies;Central America (Belize;Costa Rica;El Salvador;Guatemala;Honduras);South America (Ecuador;Peru).
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
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|source xml=
|genus=Solanum
|species=Solanum campechiense
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