Solanum mucronatum

"Solanum mucronatum"
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Lycianthes?
Species: undetermined
Binomial name
"Solanum mucronatum"
O.E.Schulz

"Solanum mucronatum" (sometimes called "pepino", which usually refers to S. muricatum) is a flowering plant species in the nightshade family (Solanaceae). It probably belongs to those species formerly in Solanum but nowadays placed in Lycianthes, though its exact identity and name remain undetermined.[1]

It is an annual shrub that is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant[2][3]. It is also endangered due to habitat loss[4].

Footnotes

  1. Solanaceae Source [2008]
  2. Grant, Amy (April 2018). "Solanum Plant Family: Information About Solanum Genus". Gardening Know How.
  3. "Solanum mammosum". Missouri Botanical Garden.
  4. "Solanum mucronatum". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. September 1993.

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