Solanum scandens Sessé & Moc., Fl. Mex., ed. 2, 53. 1894

Type: Cuba. Sessé & Mociño s.n. (lectotype, MA [MA-604676, F neg. 48318], designated by Knapp, 2008a: 20; isolectotype MA [MA-604675, F neg. 48343, 5381, upper frag. in photo, sheet now divided]).

Distribution. Endemic to Cuba, where it is found in forests and forest edges at low to middle elevations.

Representative specimen. Cuba, Pinar del Río, Ekman 17544 (S).

Solanum boldoense has occasionally been confused with the Mexican and Central American species S. dulcamaroides Dunal, to which it is probably closely related.