Distribution Map

Solanum lichtensteinii

               
Grey Bitter Apple
intfuma
(Solanum incanum)
(Solanum incanum subsp. incanum (misapplied name))

Solanaceae Solanoideae Solaneae 

As at April 2024, 9 herbarium specimens, 3 photo records, 11 visual observations

South African Red List status: LC
Global Distribution: Also occurs outside southern Africa
Found within protected areas: Mlawula
Medicinal

Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Solanum incanum - Erect, little-branched, with occasional very short triangular prickles on stem and leaf-stalk. Leaf-stalk up to 5 cm long, white-velvety; blade oval in outline, broadly and irregularly few-lobed with rounded spaces between lobes, upper surface thinly downy, lower shortly and closely white-velvety, c 18 cm long x 10 cm wide. Flowers few in lateral clusters; calyx widely conical, lobes pointed, c 1 cm long; corolla mauve, lobes broadly triangular, c 1 cm long. Fruit spherical, somewhat fleshy, not spiny, c 2 cm diam.

* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.

Notes:
Global distribution information: southern Africa includes southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe.
Restricted distribution has been based on an estimated extent of occurence of less than 100 000 km2 and/or an estimated area of occupancy of 100 km2, based on geo-referenced GBIF and iNaturalist data.