Plants → Magnoliophyta → Magnoliopsida → Solanales → Solanaceae Juss. → Solanum L. → Solanum orbiculatum Poir.

Solanum orbiculatum Poir. Wild Tomato
Lam., Encycl. Suppl. 3:762 (1814)

Conservation Code: Not threatened
Naturalised Status: Native to Western Australia
Name Status: Current
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Photo of Solanum orbiculatum Poir.

Brief Description
Amanda Spooner, Tuesday 21 September 1999

Shrub, 0.3-1.5 m high. Fl. purple-violet, Jun to Oct. Red sand, clay, loamy & skeletal soils. Sandplains & dunes, rocky hills & outcrops, gullies.

Distribution

Beard’s Provinces: Eremaean Province, South-West Province.

IBRA Regions: Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Central Ranges, Coolgardie, Gascoyne, Geraldton Sandplains, Gibson Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Murchison, Nullarbor, Pilbara, Yalgoo.

IBRA Subregions: Avon Wheatbelt P1, Carnegie, Central, Central band, Nullarbor Plain, Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Murchison, Edel, Geraldton Hills, Hamersley, Lateritic Plain, Mann-Musgrave Block, Shield, Southern Cross, Tallering, Western Murchison, Wooramel.

IMCRA Regions: Shark Bay.

Local Government Areas (LGAs): Carnarvon, Chapman Valley, Dundas, East Pilbara, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Laverton, Leonora, Meekatharra, Menzies, Mount Magnet, Murchison, Ngaanyatjarraku, Northampton, Nungarin, Perenjori, Sandstone, Shark Bay, Westonia, Wiluna, Yalgoo, Yilgarn.