page_title: Solanum
section_title: Formerly placed here
hierarchical_section_title: Solanum / Systematics / Formerly placed here
caption_attribution_description: Lycianthes rantonnei (Synonym: Solanum rantonnetii)
context_page_description: Solanum is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants, which include three food crops of high economic importance, the potato, the tomato and the eggplant. It also contains the nightshades and horse nettles, as well as numerous plants cultivated for their ornamental flowers and fruit.
  Solanum species show a wide range of growing habits, such as annual and perennials, vines, subshrubs, shrubs, and small trees. Many formerly independent genera like Lycopersicon and Cyphomandra are now included in Solanum as subgenera or sections. Thus, the genus today contains roughly 1,500–2,000 species.
context_section_description: Some plants of other genera were formerly placed in Solanum:
  Chamaesaracha coronopus (as S. coronopus)
  Lycianthes biflora (as S. multifidum Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don)
  Lycianthes denticulata (as S. gouakai var. angustifolium and var. latifolium)
  Lycianthes lycioides (as S. lycioides var. angustifolium)
  Lycianthes mociniana (as S. uniflorum Dunal in Poir. and S. uniflorum Sessé & Moc.)
  Lycianthes rantonnetii (as S. rantonnetii, S. urbanum var. ovatifolium and var. typicum)
  Undetermined species of Lycianthes have been referred to under names such as S. chrysophyllum, S. ciliatum Blume ex Miq., S. corniculatum Hiern, S. lanuginosum, S. loxense, S. mucronatum, S. retrofractum var. acuminatum, S. violaceum Blume, S. violifolium f. typicum, S. virgatum notst β albiflorum, S. uniflorum Lag. or S. uniflorum var. berterianum.
caption: Lycianthes rantonnetii and its congeners were often placed in Solanum
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