Species of flowering plant
| Solanum glaucophyllum
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom:
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Plantae
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| Clade:
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Tracheophytes
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| Clade:
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Angiosperms
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| Clade:
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Eudicots
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| Clade:
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Asterids
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| Order:
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Solanales
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| Family:
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Solanaceae
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| Genus:
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Solanum
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| Species:
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S. glaucophyllum
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| Binomial name
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Solanum glaucophyllum
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| Synonyms[1]
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- Solanum glaucescens Bacle ex Dunal
- Solanum glaucum Bertol.
- Solanum glaucum Dunal
- Solanum glaucum Rojas
- Solanum glaucum-fruticosum Larrañaga
- Solanum malacoxylon Sendtn.
- Solanum malacoxylon f. albomarginatum (Chodat) Hassl.
- Solanum malacoxylon var. albomarginatum Chodat
- Solanum malacoxylon var. angustissimum (Kuntze) Hassl.
- Solanum malacoxylon var. angustissimum Kuntze
- Solanum malacoxylon var. genuinum Hassl.
- Solanum malacoxylon var. latifolium Kuntze
- Solanum malacoxylon var. subvirescens Hassl.
- Solanum malacoxylon f. vulgare Hassl.
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Solanum glaucophyllum is a species of plant in the family Solanaceae. It is known as waxyleaf nightshade.[2] It is native to Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.
It is usually classified under the section Cyphomandropsis, within the subgenus Bassovia.
It is a rhizomatous plant with a simple stem and shortly branched, growing to 1–2 m (3.3–6.6 ft) tall or more. The leaves are simple, ovate, lanceolate, greenish-gray, and the plant produces 1–2 cm (0.4–0.8 in) long, bluish purple flowers. The fruit is a globose berry 1–2 cm in diameter, blue-black, and features several seeds inside. It propagates vegetatively by gemmiferous roots of high regeneration capacity in water-saturated soils like edges of lakes.
Its consumption by ruminants produces an illness on them.
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