Three new species of Solanum from Kenya: using herbarium specimens to document environmental change. Author Vorontsova, MS Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW 7 5 BD, U. K.; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW 9 3 AE, U. K. m.vorontsova@kew.org Author Christenhusz, MJM EaDepartment of Botany, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW 7 5 BD, U. K.; Botanical Garden and Herbarium, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland Author Kirika, P East African Herbarium, National Museums of Kenya, Museum Hill Road, P. O. Box 45166, Nairobi 00100, Kenya Author Muthoka, P East African Herbarium, National Museums of Kenya, Museum Hill Road, P. O. Box 45166, Nairobi 00100, Kenya text Systematic Botany 2010 2010-10-01 35 4 894 906 journal article 20412 10.1600/036364410X539943 263ee2d7-d5c8-44d7-8285-e181f518f4df 6326031

TABLE4. Diagnostic characters of Solanum phoxocarpum Voronts., sp. nov. Leaf characters refer to the leaves on fertile branches.

Solanum phoxocarpum sp. nov.	Solanum aculeastrum
Leaves subentire	Leaves lobed
Leaves 6–8 cm long	Leaves 8–15 cm long
Leaves 2.5 times longer than wide	Leaves 1.5–2 times longer than wide
Flowers lilac	Flowers usually white
Fruit cone shaped	Fruit usually globose or ellipsoid