Native to 60 botanical countries across Northern America and Southern America; introduced into 104 botanical countries across Europe, Africa, Temperate Asia, Tropical Asia, Australasia, Pacific, and Northern America (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 2 occurrences across 1 country.
Location
Bolivia, La Paz, Franz Tamayo (Apolo)
-14.423056, -67.923889
Location Remarks
Madidi, San Jose-Bala, Chalalan, senderos Anta, Tucan y Wabucuro, Bosque amazonico preandino, planicie con dominancia de Iriartea deltoidea, Socratea exhorriza, Otoba parvifolia, Pachira insignis, Quararibea witti y Celtis schippii. 350 m elev.
Collectors
No collectors specified
Location
Bolivia, La Paz, Abel Iturralde (Apolo)
-14.444722, -67.884722
Location Remarks
Parque Nacional Madidi, laguna Chalalan, río Yariapo. Bosque amazonico ribereño con Cecropia spp, Caliandra sp., Neea spp., Garcinia spp. y Jacaratia digitata.
Collectors
Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph, Paola Gismondi, M. Cornejo, E. Ticona, O. Valdes
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Solanales
Family
Solanaceae
Genus
Solanum
Specific Epithet
americanum
Authorship
Mill.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 0.2
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.0
Global rank
#324,279 of 335,497
Top 97%
Extinction probability
8%