Understory shrub that can reach heights of 3m.
For original publication details of Solanum sycophanta see: Prodr. 13(1): 357 357 1852.
Solanum sycophanta is found in Columbia, Venezuela and Ecuador.
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Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected from S. sycophanta in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Forest).
This information is based an ongoing project dedicated to the inventory and dissemination of information on lepidopteran larvae, their host plants, and their parasitoids in a Costa Rican tropical wet forest and an Ecuadorian montane cloud forest.
N=10 herbivore associations as of 2012.Apatelodidae: Apatelodes sp.; N=2.Crambidae: Unknown sp.; N=2.Erebidae: Unknown sp.; N=1.Geometridae: Phyllodonta succedens (Walker); N=1. Megalopygidae: Macara alydda (Druce); N=1. Saturniidae: Paradirphia andicola (Lemaire); N=1. Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies). .
Solanum sycophanta Dunal is an accepted name. This information was accessec through The Plant List.