Solanum baretiae is a vine endemic to the Amotape-Huancabamba zone of southern Ecuador and northern Peru and grows in the understory of montane forests and disturbed roadside and pasture vegetation. Its flower petals have been seen in shades of violet, yellow, or white. The species is named after the French botanist Mrs. Jeanne Baret, who disguised herself as a man to work as assistant to renowned botanist Philibert Commerson on the first French circumnavigation of the globe in 1766. Unfortunately, Commerson died before he could publish many designations proposed in his notes, and his intention to name species after his assistant remained unfulfilled. Jeanne Baret has therefore been left without anything in the natural world to commemorate her name. The leaves of S. baretiae are highly variable in shape, as are the leaves of the species that Commerson originally intended to name after Baret. The new species is a tribute to a botanist uniting seemingly contradictory qualities: a woman dressed as a man, a female botanist in a male-dominated field, and a working class woman who travelled farther than most aristocrats of her time. More information can be found here.