Solanum subbiflorum Ortega, Nov. Pl. Descr. Dec. 118. 1800

Ind. loc.: “La planta se cultiva en el jardín de esta Corte… Lo he visto en flor y fruto en dicho jardín”.

Neotype, designated here: MA 308482.

Current accepted name: Solanum capense L.

No material filed as S. subbiflorum was found in the general herbarium, in the list of plants used by Cavanilles in teaching in the year 1801 (Cavanilles, 1802) S. subbiflorum was recognised as a synonym of Solanum milleri Jacq. (itself a synonym of S. capense L.).

Filed as Solanum milleri in the general herbarium are several sheets, two were not collected from plants cultivated “en el jardín de esta Corte”; MA 573873 is a specimen donated by a secondary school in San Isidro and MA 308506 was collected on an unknown date by a Sr. Pascal. Two additional sheets are from material cultivated at the Real Jardín Botánico; one is too late to have been collected from the same plant Gómez Ortega used for his description (MA 3084902, dated 1844). MA 308482 (Fig. 1d) is annotated as “ Solanum milleri Jacq. / Solanum subbiflorum Ortega / Ex Hort. Matr. 1803” in the hand of José Demetrio Rodriguez and is likely to be material from the same plants used by Gómez Ortega three years earlier to describe S. subbiflorum and I have selected this sheet as the neotype. All of these sheets are identifiable as S. capense L.