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|accepted_name=Solanum mauritianum
|accepted_authority=Scopoli
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Delic. Fl. Faun. Insubr.
|place=3: 16, plate 8. 1788
|year=1788
}}
|common_names=Earleaf nightshade
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
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|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Solanum auriculatum
|authority=Aiton
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Solanaceae;Solanum;Solanum mauritianum
|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 mauritianum]]</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, 2–12 m, densely pubescent, hairs white, sessile to long-stalked, stellate to echinoid. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate; petiole 1–8 cm; blade simple, elliptic to ovate, 11–31 × 4–14 cm, margins entire, base acute, often with smaller axillary leaves. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, becoming leaf-opposed, much-branched, 50–100-flowered, 5–24 cm. <b>Pedicels</b> erect and 0.2–0.5 cm in flower and fruit. <b>Flowers</b> radially symmetric; calyx slightly accrescent, unarmed, 4–7.5 mm, densely pubescent, lobes deltate; corolla purple, stellate-pentagonal, 1–1.5 cm diam., with abundant interpetalar tissue; stamens equal; anthers oblong, 2–3.5 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores that open into longitudinal slits; ovary tomentose. <b>Berries</b> yellow, globose, 1–1.5 cm diam., tomentose, without sclerotic granules. <b>Seeds</b> yellowish brown, flattened, 1.5–2.5 × 1.5–2 mm, minutely pitted. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jul.
|habitat=Disturbed sites.
|elevation=0–500 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Fla.;South America (Brazil;Uruguay);introduced also in Asia (India);Africa;Atlantic Islands;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|discussion=<p>In Florida, Solanum mauritianum has become naturalized and common only at one site in Pasco County. It also occurs frequently in southern California from Santa Barbara south to San Diego with urban waifs in the Bay Area. It appears to be spreading into relatively undisturbed riparian areas in the San Gabriel Mountains and may become a widespread pest.</p>
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name=Solanum mauritianum
|authority=Scopoli
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Solanum auriculatum
|basionyms=
|family=Solanaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jul.
|habitat=Disturbed sites.
|elevation=0–500 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Fla.;South America (Brazil;Uruguay);introduced also in Asia (India);Africa;Atlantic Islands;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Delic. Fl. Faun. Insubr.
|publication year=1788
|special status=Weedy;Introduced
|source xml=
|genus=Solanum
|species=Solanum mauritianum
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