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Forest Bitterberry

Solanum anguivi Lam.

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Rare in our area. Found in waste places in plains and the subhimalayan tracts up to 1600 m. According to Hepper (l.c.), the true Solanum indicum L. is a synonym of Solanum ferox L.
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Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 14 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Description

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A prickly undershrub, 1.5-2 m tall, with dense stellate-tomentose parts. Prickles up to 10 mm long, erect to slightly recurved. Leaves 4-15 x 3.5-9 cm, ovate to oblong-ovate, repand, acute, both surfaces stellately hairy and prickly on the nerves. Petiole up to 2.5 cm long. Flowers 4-15 in number, bluish-purple, in extra-axillary cymes. Calyx ± 4 mm long, campanulate, stellately hairy. Corolla limb 18-20 mm broad; lobes acute. Anthers 6-7 mm long; filaments glabrous. Ovary and style pilose-pubescent. Berry globose, (5-)8-10 mm broad, glabrescent, yellow. Seeds ± 3 mm long, subreniform, minutely reticulate, foveolate.
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Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 14 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Distribution

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India, Malaya, Indo-China, Philippines, Taiwan.
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal @ eFloras.org
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Distribution

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Distribution: S. & S. E. Asia, Arabia and tropical Africa.
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Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 14 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Elevation Range

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250-2300 m
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flower/Fruit

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Fl. Per.: Mostly throughout the year.
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Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 14 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Derivation of specific name

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anguivi: slender and curved, referring to the prickles
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Solanum anguivi Lam. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=150600
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Description

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Erect woody herb or shrub, up to c. 4 m tall. Stems and leaves armed with straight or somewhat curved spines, yellowish to brownish, sometimes purple near the base, up to 13 mm long, branches often purple tinged. All parts covered in stellate hairs. Leaves rhombic-ovate, elliptic or lanceolate, thinly stellate hairy above, densely so below. The central ray of the stellate hairs often much longer than the lateral rays. Leaf margin subentire to triangularly lobed. Prickles usually present on the midrib and main veins. Flowers in up to 20-flowered racemose heads. Corolla pale mauve or purple to almost whitish, star-shaped. Fruits 6-12 mm in diameter, spherical, green, turning yellow and glossy orange-red when ripe. Edible when mature.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Solanum anguivi Lam. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=150600
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Worldwide distribution

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Widespread in tropical Africa and S Africa as far as the KwaZulu-Natal. Also in the Arabian Peninsula, Aldabra, Comoro, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Solanum anguivi Lam. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=150600
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Solanum anguivi

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Solanum anguivi is a plant indigenous to non-arid parts of Africa, and is commonly known as forest bitterberry or African eggplant, although the latter term is most commonly associated with Solanum aethiopicum.

It is a traditional ethnomedicine in India.

References

  1. ^ "Solanum anguivi Lam". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
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Solanum anguivi: Brief Summary

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Solanum anguivi is a plant indigenous to non-arid parts of Africa, and is commonly known as forest bitterberry or African eggplant, although the latter term is most commonly associated with Solanum aethiopicum.

It is a traditional ethnomedicine in India.

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