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Taxon:
Solanum torvum
Sw.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Solanum
Subgenus:
Leptostemonum
Section:
Torva
Family:
Solanaceae
Subfamily:
Solanoideae
Tribe:
Solaneae
Nomen number:
101441
Place of publication:
Prodr. 47. 1788, nom. cons. prop.
Comment:
proposed for conservation (nom. cons. prop.) with a conserved type (
Shenzhen ICN
14.9)
Verified:
11/28/2010
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Solanum ficifolium
Ortega
No images
Reference(s)
Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. et al.
1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78:1-581.
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
www.skud.info
Applequist, W. L.
2013. Report of the Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants: 65. Taxon 62:1317.
URL:
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax
Note:
proposal not recommended, considered unnecessary
Arao, T. et al.
2008. Reduction of cadmium translocation from roots to shoots in eggplant (
Solanum melongena
) by grafting onto
Solanum torvum
rootstock. Soil Sci. Pl. Nutr. 54:555-559.
Aubréville, A. et al., eds.
1967-. Flore de la Nouvelle Caledonie et dependances.
Balick, M. J. et al.
2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85
Collonnier, C. et al.
2001. Applications of biotechnology in eggplant. Pl. Cell Tissue Organ Cult. 65:91-107.
Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll.
1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
Erhardt, W. et al.
2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
Exell, A. W. et al., eds.
1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
URL:
http://www.kew.org/efloras/namesearch.do
Facciola, S.
1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications.
Figueiredo, E. & G. F. Smith.
2008. Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
URL:
http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Solanum+torvum&quantity=1
Forzza, R. C. et al., coord.
Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
URL:
http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/
Funk, V. et al.
2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
George, A. S., ed.
1980-. Flora of Australia.
Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds.
2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14
Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds.
1978-. Flora de Veracruz.
URL:
http://www.ecologia.edu.mx/publicaciones/flover.htm
Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
Note:
re. Brazilian common names
Hansen, A. & P. Sunding.
1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds
Howard, R.
1974-1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
Humbert, J.-H., ed.
1936-. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores.
Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds.
1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75
Kartesz, J. T.
1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
Knapp, S.
2011. (2030) Proposal to conserve the name
Solanum torvum
(
Solanaceae
) with a conserved type. Taxon 60:1523-1524.
URL:
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax
Lazarides, M. & B. Hince.
1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia
León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier).
1946-1969. Flora de Cuba
Levin, R. A. et al.
2006. Phylogenetic relationships among the "spiny solanums"
Solanum
subgenus
Leptostemonum
, Solanaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 93:157-169.
URL:
http://www.amjbot.org
Liogier, H. A.
1981-. Flora of Hispaniola: Part 1; La Flora de la Española. Part II-.
Liogier, H. A.
1984-. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.
Macbride, J. F. et al., eds.
1936-. Flora of Peru
Note:
1936-1971; new ser. 1980-
Nee, M.
1999. Synopsis of
Solanum
in the New World. Solanaceae IV: advances in biology and utilization 326.
Nelson, C. H. N.
2008. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Honduras
Note:
Secretaría de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
PBI Solanum Project.
Solanaceae source: a global taxonomic resource for the nightshade family (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/solanaceaesource/
Pittier, H. F. et al.
1945-1947. Catálogo de la flora venezolana.
Plant Protection and Quarantine Office.
United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/permits/noxiousweed_list.html
Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Solanum_eggplants.html
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Seed Regulatory and Testing Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A.
State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act (updated annually).
URL:
http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5090172
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1993. Vegetables. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 8:258-260.
URL:
http://proseanet.org
Smith, A. C.
1979-1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark.
1946-1976. Flora of Guatemala.
Stevens, W. D. et al., eds.
2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
Symon, D. E.
1981. A revision of the genus
Solanum
in Australia. J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 4:115.
Welman, W. G.
2003. The genus
Solanum
(Solanaceae) in southern Africa: subgenus
Leptostemonum
, the introduced sections
Acanthophora
and
Torva
. Bothalia 33:13-15.
Wilson, K. L.
2016. Report of the General Committee: 14. Taxon 65:878-879.
URL:
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax
Note:
proposal referred back to Committee for Vascular Plants for further consideration
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
URL:
http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.prota4u.info/
Common names
English
devil's-fig –
Reference(s)
pea eggplant –
Reference(s)
platebrush –
Reference(s)
susumber –
Reference(s)
turkeyberry –
Reference(s)
German
Teufels-Nachtschatten –
Reference(s)
Indonesian
pokak –
Reference(s)
takokak –
Reference(s)
Malay
terong pipit –
Reference(s)
Portuguese (Brazil)
jurubeba –
Reference(s)
Spanish
berenjena cimarrona –
Reference(s)
terongan –
Reference(s)
Swedish
ärtaubergin –
Reference(s)
Transcribed Chinese
shui qie –
Reference(s)
Distribution
Exportable format
order_code
Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Northern America
Southern Mexico
Mexico
Chiapas
1
Native
Northern America
Southern Mexico
Mexico
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave
s.
1
Native
Northern America
Southern Mexico
Mexico
Yucatán
1
Native
Southern America
Brazil
Brazil
Bahia
1
Native
Southern America
Brazil
Brazil
Espírito Santo
1
Native
Southern America
Brazil
Brazil
Paraíba
1
Native
Southern America
Brazil
Brazil
Pernambuco
1
Native
Southern America
Brazil
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
1
Native
Southern America
Brazil
Brazil
São Paulo
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
Bahamas
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
Barbados
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
Cuba
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
Dominica
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
Dominican Republic
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
Grenada
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
Haiti
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
Jamaica
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
Martinique
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
Montserrat
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
St. Kitts and Nevis
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
St. Lucia
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
St. Vincent and Grenadines
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
United States
Puerto Rico
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
United States
Virgin Islands, U.S.
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
Virgin Islands (British)
1
Native
Southern America
Central America
Belize
1
Native
Southern America
Central America
Costa Rica
1
Native
Southern America
Central America
Guatemala
1
Native
Southern America
Central America
Honduras
1
Native
Southern America
Central America
Nicaragua
1
Native
Southern America
Central America
Panama
1
Native
Southern America
Northern South America
French Guiana
1
Native
Southern America
Northern South America
Guyana
1
Native
Southern America
Northern South America
Venezuela
1
Native
Southern America
Western South America
Colombia
1
Native
Southern America
Western South America
Ecuador
4
Naturalized
widely natzd. elsewhere
Native
Northern America
SOUTHERN MEXICO:
Mexico
[Chiapas, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (s.), Yucatán]
Southern America
CARIBBEAN:
Antigua and Barbuda
[Antigua],
Bahamas
,
Barbados
,
Cuba
,
Dominica
,
Dominican Republic
,
Grenada
,
Haiti
,
Jamaica
,
St. Kitts and Nevis
,
St. Lucia
,
Montserrat
,
Martinique
,
United States
[Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, U.S.],
St. Vincent and Grenadines
,
Virgin Islands (British)
CENTRAL AMERICA:
Belize
,
Costa Rica
,
Guatemala
,
Honduras
,
Nicaragua
,
Panama
NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
French Guiana
,
Guyana
,
Venezuela
BRAZIL:
Brazil
[Bahia, Espírito Santo, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo]
WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Colombia
,
Ecuador
Naturalized
(widely natzd. elsewhere)
Economic Uses
Usage
Type
Note
Reference
Human food
fruit
Facciola, S.
1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications.
Human food
vegetable
Facciola, S.
1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications.
Medicines
folklore
Welman, W. G.
2003. The genus
Solanum
(Solanaceae) in southern Africa: subgenus
Leptostemonum
, the introduced sections
Acanthophora
and
Torva
. Bothalia 33:13-15.
Weed
potential seed contaminant
Lazarides, M. & B. Hince.
1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia
Weed
potential seed contaminant
fide J. Adel BG 4:116. 1981
Symon, D. E.
1981. A revision of the genus
Solanum
in Australia. J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 4:115.
Name
References