[S. fauriei H. Lev.; S. nigrum sensu Hawaiian botanists, non L.; S. nigrum L. var. nihoense F. Brown; S. nodiflomm sensu Hawaiian botanists non Dunal nec Jacq.; S. nodiflorum var. fauriei (H. Lev.) DegenerJ
(ind?) Glossy  nightshade, polopolo, popolohua (Ni'ihau)

Annual or short-lived perennial herbs up to 1.2 m tall, erect or wide-spreading, straggly with age, sometimes flushed purplish; stems sometimes angled or narrowly winged with lines of tissue from base of petiole, the wings smooth or with short soft teeth, unarmed, glabrous or sparsely pubescent with simple curved hairs. Leaves simrow wing along petiole, petioles 1-4 cm long. Flowers perfect, actinomorphic, in extra-axillary umbelliform cymes, pedun- cles 1-2.5 cm long, apex, pedicels 5-8 mm long; calyx cam-flowers congested at panulate, 1-2 mm long, the lobes obtuse,   ca. 1 mm long; corolla white or occasion-   ally purple-tinged, stellate, 0.8-0.9 cm in diameter, with a yellowish green starshaped area, the lobes ca. 1.5 mm wide; stamens inserted near base of corolla tube; filaments with spreading hairs on inner side, 1-2 mm long; anthers oblong, 1.5-2 mm long, opening by pores or short slits; ovary globose, ca. 1 mm in diameter, glabrous; style erect, 2.5-4 mm long, pubescent in lower part; stigma capitate, at level of anther pores. Berries glossy black, succulent, readily shed when ripe, sclerotic granules 0-4, ca. 0.5 mm in diameter, pedicels erect or recurved in fruit, up to 4 cm long, calyx somewhat enlarged and often re-flexed. Seeds numerous, 1-1.5 mm long, compressed, testa minutely reticulate. Self-compatible; [2n = 12, 24]. Widely distributed in tropical and warm temperate areas, generally associated with some man-made disturbance; in Hawaii possibly naturalized in open sites from coastal to wet forest, subalpine woodland, and disturbed roadsides and pasture, 0-2,380 m, on Kure, Midway, and Pearl and Hermes atolls, Lisianski, Laysan, Nihoa, and all of the main islands. Hillebrand (1888) treated this species as native; however, the earliest collection was made in 1835 (Nuttall s.n., BM). In support of Hillebrand’s statement is the discovery of seeds of this species in archaeological remains of the Mauna Kea Adze Quarry complex (Allen, 1981). This site was abandoned prior to Cook’s arrival. —Plate 185.
This plant was used medicinally by Hawaiians for the digestive tract and sore throats (Handy s.n., BISH). In addition, young shoots are used as a pot herb in New Guinea and Pacific islands. It is a variable species with many minor variants, green or purple-tinged, glabrous or pubescent leaves, sclerotic granules in berry present or absent, pedicels erect or recurved. It is frequently confused with Solanum nigrum, black nightshade, which has dull black berries and is a hexaploid.