Herb, 0.5-1m, erect.
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Solanum atriplicifolium Desp. ex Dunal, nomen nudum |
| synonym | Solanum cuneifolium Hort. Avens ex Dunal, nomen nudum |
| synonym | Solanum decipiens Opiz |
| synonym | Solanum dillenii Schult. |
| synonym | Solanum humile Salisb. |
| synonym | Solanum judaicum Besser |
| synonym | Solanum morella Desv. |
| synonym | Solanum morella subsp. nigrum (L.) Rouy |
| synonym | Solanum moschatum J.Presl |
| synonym | Solanum nigrum f. luridum Wessely |
| synonym | Solanum nigrum subsp. schultesii (Opiz) Wessely |
| synonym | Solanum nigrum var. dillenii (Schult.) A.Gray |
| synonym | Solanum papilionaceum Dum.Cours. |
| synonym | Solanum pseudoflavum Pojark. |
| synonym | Solanum repens Noronha, nomen nudum |
| synonym | Solanum schultesii Opiz |
| synonym | Solanum suffruticosum Willd. |
| synonym | Solanum villosum Opiz ex Dunal, nomen nudum |
| synonym | Solanum vulgare Hegetschw. |
| synonym | Solanum vulgatum var. nigrum (L.) Spenn. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Diagnostic Keys
Sanjib Barua
| Attributions | Sanjib Barua |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Habit: Shrub
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Cyclicity
Flowering : March onwards Fruiting : Summer
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
Morphology
Flower
In umbels, white. Flowering peaks from December-March.
Fruit
A berry, juicy, dark blue when ripe. Seeds many, discoid, minutely pitted. Fruiting from February onwards.
Leaf Apices
Acute
Leaf arrangement
Opposite
Leaf Bases
Decurrent
Leaf Shapes
Ovate
Leaf Types
Simple
Habit
An erect shrub.
Keystone Foundation
| Attributions | Keystone Foundation |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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An annual herbaceous weed, leaves ovate lanceolate entire, sinuate, toothed acute, thin glabrous. Flowers white, small. Fruit berry, black when ripe, shining but some time yellow red when ripe
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats, Naturalized, Native of Tropical Africa
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Very common, by riverbanks, moist places, fallow lands, arable lands. Plains from the coast to 1500m, almost cosmopolitan.
Keystone Foundation
| Attributions | Keystone Foundation |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Maharashtra: Common throughout
Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Nilgiri
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Assam Distribution
Found throughout the state ascending upto 5000 ft
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
Common
Sanjib Barua
| Attributions | Sanjib Barua |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Protection Legal Status
It is found growing wild in the tropical forest
Sanjib Barua
| Attributions | Sanjib Barua |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Homoeopathy
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Siddha
Unani
Traditional chinese medicine
Sowa-Rigpa
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Homoeopathy, Sowa-Rigpa, Unani, Siddha, Traditional chinese medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1952
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1952 |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Leaves cooked and eaten. It is used cure stomach aches, chest pain, mouth ulcer and for deworming.
Keystone Foundation
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Young leaves are used as mixed vegetable with others. Ripe fruits are eaten. It is also considered highly medicinal for burns
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1952
Information Listing > References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1952
Indigenous Knowledge on Medicinal Flora Utilized by the Traditional Healers in Mappillaiyurani Village, Tuticorin District, Tamil Nadu, India
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Dr. V. VadivelOn the diversity of the vertebrate fauna (excluding fishes) of Panchet Hill (Garh Panchkot), Purulia, West Bengal, India
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Journal of Threatened TaxaFloristic enumeration of Torna Fort (Western Ghats, India): a storehouse of endemic plants
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Journal of Threatened TaxaWild edible plants of Hassan District, Karnataka: A role in ayurvedic formulation
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Dr. G. M. Prashanth KumarVascular plant diversity in the sacred grove of Modapalli in Viskhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh, India
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Journal of Threatened TaxaAdditions to the fauna of parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) and coccoids (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, with illustrations and diagnosis
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Journal of Threatened TaxaNo Data
🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Solanales |
| Family | Solanaceae |
| Genus | Solanum |
| Species | Solanum nigrum L. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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