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|accepted_name=Solanum erianthum
|accepted_authority=D. Don
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr. Fl. Nepal.,
|place=96. 1825
|year=1825
}}
|common_names=Potato tree;salvadora
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Solanaceae;Solanum;Solanum erianthum
|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 erianthum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or small trees, erect, unarmed, 2–8 m, densely pubescent, hairs sessile to short-stalked, stellate to echinoid. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate; petiole 1–10 cm; blade simple, elliptic to ovate, 10–25 × 3–15 cm, margins entire, base rounded or acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, becoming leaf-opposed, much-branched, 10–50-flowered, 5–20 cm. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.2–0.6 cm in flower, erect and 0.4–10 cm in fruit. <b>Flowers</b> radially symmetric; calyx accrescent and subtending fruit, unarmed, 5–7 mm, densely pubescent, hairs stellate to echinoid, lobes broadly triangular; corolla white, stellate, 1–2 cm diam., without interpetalar tissue; stamens equal; anthers oblong, 2.5–3.5 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores that open into longitudinal slits; ovary tomentose, hairs stellate or echinoid. <b>Berries</b> yellow to orange, globose, 1–2 cm diam., densely pubescent, without sclerotic granules. <b>Seeds</b> yellowish brown, flattened, 1.5–2 × 1–1.5 mm, minutely pitted. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Oct (year-round in Fla.).
|habitat=Hammocks, pinelands, disturbed sites.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (Colombia);introduced in Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (including the Galapagos Islands);Australia.
|discussion=<p>In the United States, Solanum erianthum is common only in central to southern Florida and in extreme southern Texas near the Gulf of Mexico.</p><!--
--><p>The name Solanum verbascifolium Linnaeus has been widely misapplied to S. erianthum (K. E. Roe 1968), but is a synonym of S. donianum that has now been rejected.</p>
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name=Solanum erianthum
|authority=D. Don
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Solanaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Oct (year-round in Fla.).
|habitat=Hammocks, pinelands, disturbed sites.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (Colombia);introduced in Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (including the Galapagos Islands);Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Prodr. Fl. Nepal.,
|publication year=1825
|special status=
|source xml=
|genus=Solanum
|species=Solanum erianthum
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