Solanum capsicoides, the cockroach berry, is a species of flowering plant in the family Solanaceae. It is native to eastern Brazil but naturalized in other tropical regions, where it sometimes becomes an invasive weed.
Synonyms
This species had been included in S. aculeatissimum as variety denudatum by Dunal (Solanum denudatum of Bitter is S. humile as described by Lamarck). It was also included in the eggplant (S. melongena) under its junior synonym S. trongum (as var. sinuato-pinnatifidum), also by Dunal.
In addition, the cockroach berry is sometimes referenced under the following obsolete names:
- Solanum arrebenta <small>Vell.</small>
- Solanum bodinieri <small>H.Lév. & Vaniot</small>
- Solanum capsicoides <small>Hort. Paris ex Lam. (preoccupied)</small>
- Solanum ciliare <small>Willd.</small>
- Solanum ciliatum <small>Lam.</small>
S. ciliatum of Blume from F.A.W. Miquel is an undetermined species of Lycianthes.
- Solanum ciliatum var. arenarium <small>Dunal</small>
S. arenarium of Schur is S. villosum as described by Philip Miller.
S. arenarium of Otto Sendtner is a valid species
- Solanum macowanii <small>Fourc.</small>
- Solanum pentapetaloides <small>Roxb. ex Hornem.</small>
S. pentapetaloides of Bojer from Dunal in de Candolle is S. imamense.
- Solanum pentapetalum <small>Schltdl.</small>
- Solanum sinuatifolium <small>Vell.</small>
- Solanum sphaerocarpum <small>Moric.</small>
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