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|accepted_name=Solanum tenuipes
|accepted_authority=Bartlett
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=44: 629. 1909
|year=1909
}}
|common_names=Fancy nightshade
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Solanaceae;Solanum;Solanum tenuipes
|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 tenuipes]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, spreading, moderately to densely armed, 0.2–0.5 m, prickles pale, straight, to 8 mm, glabrate to sparsely or moderately pubescent, hairs unbranched, glandular or eglandular, abaxial leaf surfaces with some sessile stellate hairs, 4–6-rayed, central ray equal to lateral rays. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate; petiole 2–6 cm; blade simple to 2–3 times lobed to compound, broadly ovate to elliptic, 4–9 × 2–7 cm, margins 2–3 times lobed to 2–3 times divided with 2–3 main leaflets per side, leaflets lobed to pinnately dissected, base truncate. <b>Inflorescences</b> extra-axillary, unbranched, 6–9-flowered, 4–9 cm. <b>Pedicels</b> 1–2 cm in flower, erect and 2–3 cm in fruit. <b>Flowers</b> bilaterally symmetric; calyx accrescent and almost completely and tightly covering fruit, moderately to densely prickly, 4–6 mm, sparsely to moderately pubescent, lobes linear to lanceolate; corolla violet or blue, stellate, 2.5–3.5 cm diam., with sparse interpetalar tissue; stamens unequal, lowermost much longer and curved; anthers narrow and tapered, dehiscent by terminal pores, short anthers 7–10 mm, longer anther 12–20 mm; ovary glabrous. <b>Berries</b> brown, globose to depressed-globose, 0.7–1 cm diam., glabrous, dry, without sclerotic granules. <b>Seeds</b> dark brown, plump, 2.8–3.6 × 2–3 mm, minutely pitted and irregularly ridged. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|distribution=Texas;nc Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Larger leaves 3 times pinnatifid; seeds 3.1–3.6 mm.
|[[Solanum tenuipes var. tenuipes|Solanum tenuipes var. tenuipes]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves usually only 2 times pinnatifid; seeds to 3 mm.
|[[Solanum tenuipes var. latisectum|Solanum tenuipes var. latisectum]]
|}
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|authority=Bartlett
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|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Solanaceae
|distribution=Texas;nc Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1909
|special status=
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|genus=Solanum
|species=Solanum tenuipes
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