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Solanum lanceifolium

Botanic Family

Solanaceae

Author

Jacquin

Conservation Status

Least concern

Common Names

• Bélangère Piquante
• Bélangère Liane
• Mélongène-razier
• Mélongène Piquant

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Brazil
• Cayman Islands
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles
• Florida
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• woodland
• clearing
• shrubland
• forest margin
• shrubby savanna
• montane areas
• coastal

Flowering Times

• All year (Nicaragua)
• Jan-Aug (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Nicaragua)
• Jan-Aug (Puerto Rico)

Spiny herbaceous or woody high-climbing vine to 10m, scandent tree or shrub, pilose stems with thorns to 3mm x 1.5mm. Glabrate to hairy binate leaves to 150mm x 70mm with recurved prickles on nerves, scattered hairy stellate down above, sparsely pubescent with stellate pili beneath. Villous prickly lateral or extra-axillary racemes, 5-20 flowered, of 25mm diameter white or blue flowers, corolla tomentose outside, tomentose calyx to 4mm long with 5 teeth 1.5mm long, prickly, white or violet corolla, tube to 15mm long & lobes to 12mm long. Orange or red glabrous fruit to 9mm diameter. Twiner with recurved thorns, 20mm diameter purple flowers

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• Smithsonian
• SAFIO
• Standley