Solanum marginatum
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Details Top
Internal ID | UUID644041c2da1c3913055810 |
Scientific name | Solanum marginatum |
Authority | L.f. |
First published in | Suppl. 147. 1781. |
Description Top
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It is used in traditional medicine and is also of interest to the pharmaceutical industry.
Solanum marginatum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family native to Ethiopia and Eritrea. It is a hairy shrub that grows up to two meters tall, with large, distinctive gray-green leaves that are wavy along the edges and woolly on the undersides. The inflorescence contains several white flowers, and the fruit is a yellow berry up to 5 centimeters wide. It contains solasodine, which is used in traditional medicine and of interest to the pharmaceutical industry.
Solanum marginatum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family native to Ethiopia and Eritrea. It is a hairy shrub that grows up to two meters tall, with large, distinctive gray-green leaves that are wavy along the edges and woolly on the undersides. The inflorescence contains several white flowers, and the fruit is a yellow berry up to 5 centimeters wide. It contains solasodine, which is used in traditional medicine and of interest to the pharmaceutical industry.
Synonyms Top
Scientific name | Authority | First published in |
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Solanum argyracanthum | Dum.Cours. | Bot. Cult. 4: 48. 1802. |
Solanum cabiliense var. argenteum | hort. ex Vilm. | Fl. Pleine Terre, ed. 3: 713. 1870. |
Solanum coagulans | A.Schimp. ex Dunal | Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(1): 370. 1852. |
Solanum marginatum var. polyhoplum | Bitter | Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 16: 290. 1923. |
Solanum niveum | All. ex Vitman | Summa Pl. 1: 492. 1790. |
Common names Top
Add a new one! Suggest a correction!Language | Common/alternative name |
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English | purple african nightshade |
Quechua | kichka t'ankar |
Swedish | vitskatta |
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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top
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Macaronesia
- Azores
- Canary Islands
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Northeast Tropical Africa
- Djibouti
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
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- Morocco
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Southern South America
Links to other databases Top
Suggest others/fix!Database | ID/link to page |
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World Flora Online | wfo-0001029370 |
UNII | IIT3FKM94U |
USDA Plants | SOMA |
Tropicos | 29602608 |
KEW | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:819994-1 |
The Plant List | tro-29602608 |
Open Tree Of Life | 691775 |
Observations.org | 133438 |
NCBI Taxonomy | 329785 |
Nature Serve | 2.157288 |
IUCN Red List | 71782439 |
IPNI | 819994-1 |
iNaturalist | 79140 |
GBIF | 2929577 |
Freebase | /m/0cny_6b |
EPPO | SOLMG |
EOL | 581187 |
Calflora (Californian flora) | 7657 |
USDA GRIN | 101516 |
Wikipedia | Solanum_marginatum |
Genomes (via NCBI) Top
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Scientific Literature Top
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Phytochemical Profile Top
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Name | PubChem ID | Canonical SMILES | MW | Found in | Proof |
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> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Steroids and steroid derivatives / Stigmastanes and derivatives | |||||
Carpesterol | 21155918 | Click to see CCC(CC(C(C)C1CCC2C1(CCC3C2=CC(=O)C4C3(CCC(C4C)OC(=O)C5=CC=CC=C5)C)C)O)C(C)C | 562.80 | unknown | https://doi.org/10.1086/337221 |
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In public collections | 0 |