American black nightshade (Solanum americanum)

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Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name: Solanum americanum Mill.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.: Solanum americanum
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.: Mill.
Common names: American black nightshade, Small-flowered Nightshade, Wild Pepper, American black, American nightshade, Australian black nightshade, black nightshade, common purple nightshade, glossy nightshade, small-flower nightshade, smallflower nightshade, West Indian Nightshade
Names in other languages (61)
Ají Montesino, Anatsidra kely, Brède morelle, Chimblas, Ekelite, Erva-moura, Esibanimizh, Hangatsindra bwaniongo, Fekilinyongo titi, Hierba mora, Jachafili, Killi panka, Lama, Maloida, Martillo, Mata gallina, Morelle d'Amérique, Morelle d'Amérique, Brède morelle, Brède malgache, Brède martin, Morelle, Morelle noire, Morelle d'Amérique, Herbe à calalou, Morelle, brède morelle, brède kanak, Mortiño, Paban chinpalo, Pchfux-yáas, Pili muyu, Qhaya-qhaya, Quelite, Schermnachtschade, Shimpiship, Shinpishi, Storfrugtet natskygge, Wal ts'ok, Wampishkúr, Yerba mora (ES); West Indian Nightshade (EN); Westindischer Nachtschatten (DE), Yerbamora, adventivsøtvier, amerika quşüzümü, amerikankoiso, amerikanmustakoiso, amerikansk nattskatta, anamama, chichiquelite, hierba mora negra, kisvirágú csucsor*, koporo, lilek americký, magalo, maria--pretinha, maria-pretinha, muyanya porini, oupoo, hupoo, oupoo, upoo, pōpolo, texassøtvier, ľuľok americký, Паслён американский, มะแว้งนกอเมริกัน, ’öporo, mapua ’ere’ere, minamina, mä’a ’otu’u, カンザシイヌホオズキ, テリミノイヌホオズキ, 光果龍葵, 少花龍葵, 미국까마중
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).: Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.: Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).: Solanales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).: Solanaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.: Solanum
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.: americanum
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.: species
Reference species: Solanum americanum
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.: accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.: Not available.

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Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 1 of 10 has its flowers visited by × 9 more types with data for this species

Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 14 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented	Actions
Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens Apidae	has its flowers visited by	2	no location
2 sources · 3 records Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Record contexts (sample): no place published · no date published; no place published · no date published Robertson, C. 1929. Flowers and insects: lists of visitors to four hundred and fifty-three flowers. Carlinville, IL, USA, C. Robertson. Published in millerse/Flowers-and-insects-lists-of-visitors-to-four-hundred-and-fifty-three-flowers Context: southwestern Illinois, USA · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus Apidae	has its flowers visited by	2	no location
2 sources · 2 records Robertson, C. 1929. Flowers and insects: lists of visitors to four hundred and fifty-three flowers. Carlinville, IL, USA, C. Robertson. Published in millerse/Flowers-and-insects-lists-of-visitors-to-four-hundred-and-fifty-three-flowers Context: southwestern Illinois, USA · no date published Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Context: no place published · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Lasioglossum	has its flowers visited by Refuted	1	no location	Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
1 source · 1 record Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Context: no place published · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Nomia	has its flowers visited by Refuted	1	no location	Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
1 source · 1 record Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Context: no place published · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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Interaction data from Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), GloBI 0.11. Each row keeps the citation its own study published.

Interactions are published at species level: they are not resolved by variety or race.

Each block is headed by the source's own term, read from this species' end — not by a category of ours. Two similar terms are not merged.

«Documented here» means the interaction was observed in this territory. It is not evidence that the species is here, and it does not enter the niche model.

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.