Solanum pimpinellifolium ‒ new for the alien flora of Austria, with comments on Austrian records of S. triflorum and S. nitidibaccatum

Abstract: Solanum pimpinellifolium has been found in Vienna in 2012 and is new for the alien
flora of Austria. The single Austrian herbarium specimen of Solanum triflorum – collected in
Vienna in 1969 – could be confirmed. Characters and native distributions of both species are discussed.
Solanum nitidibaccatum has been treated as subspecies of S. physalifolium in the recent
Excursion Flora of Austria by Fischer & al. (2008), but is a distinct, well-defined species with
different native distribution in South America whereas S. physalifolium is not known outside its native
range. All records of S. physalifolium in Austria represent plants of S. nitidibaccatum. Solanum
sarrachoides has not been found in Austria yet. The population collected and published by Helmut
Melzer as S. sar[r]achoides is in fact S. nitidibaccatum.

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