Solanum violaceum Ortega
Solanum violaceum Ortega
MS074 : Solanum violaceum Ortega
| Plant Category | : | Shrubs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 349 |
| Synonym | : | Solanum anguivi var. multiflorum (Roem. & Schult.) Vajr.;
Solanum chinense Dunal.;
Solanum coccineum Hort. Par. ex Dunal, nomen nudum.;
Solanum ferox Jungh. ex Miq.;
Solanum indicum L.;
Solanum indicum f. album C.Y.Wu & S.C.Huang.;
Solanum indicum var. eroso-pinnatifidum Dunal.;
Solanum indicum var. multiflorum (Roem. & Schult.) C.B.Clarke.;
Solanum indicum var. pubescens Dunal.;
Solanum indicum var. recurvatum C.Y.Wu & S.C.Huang.;
Solanum indicum var. sinuato-lobatum Dunal.;
Solanum junghuhnii Miq.;
Solanum kurzii Brace ex Prain.;
Solanum lividum Willd. ex Dunal, nomen nudum.;
Solanum multiflorum Roth ex Roem. & Schult.;
Solanum nelsonii Zipp. ex Span., nomen nudum.;
Solanum nivalomontanum C.Y.Wu & S.C.Huang.;
Solanum pubescens B.Heyne ex Walp., nomen nudum.;
Solanum racemosum Noronha, nomen nudum.;
Solanum sanitwongsei Craib.;
Solanum vincentii Delile ex Dunal, nomen nudum.;
Solanum violaceum multiflorum (C.B.Clarke) K.M.Matthew.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Indian Nightshade, Asian nightshade, Poison berry • Malayalam: Pscheru-schunda, valutina • Mizo: s-amtawk • Sanskrit: Barhatti • Nepali: Thulo Bihin, Bihi, Nilo Bihi, Kalchauda Kaadaa |
| Plant Family | : | Solanaceae |
| Description | : | Shrubs 0.5-1.5(-2) m tall, much branched, pubescent overall with dense, stalked, 5-11-rayed stellate hairs. Stems and branches with pale yellow, recurved prickles 4-10 × 1.5-7 mm, gray stellate tomentose. Leaves unequal paired; petiole 1.5-4 cm; leaf blade ovate, 5-8(-11) × 2-7(-8.5) cm, tomentose with short-stalked, 5-9(-11)-rayed stellate hairs adaxially, with long-stalked hairs abaxially, with straight needlelike prickles, base cordate or truncate, margin 5-7-sinuate lobed, apex obtuse or acute. Inflorescences extra-axillary, scorpioid racemes, 2-6 cm, sparingly branched; peduncle ca. 1.5 cm, prickly or not. Pedicel 4-15 mm. Calyx 4-7 mm; lobes lanceolate, 3-5 mm, unequal, pubescent and prickly as on pedicel. Corolla blue-purple, sometimes white, rotate, 1-1.2 × 1-2 cm; lobes ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 5-8 × 2-5 mm, obtuse. Filaments ca. 1 mm; anthers oblong, 5-6 mm. Style 8-10 mm, stellate pubescent. Fruiting pedicel 1-2 cm, stellate pubescent, prickly, erect or sometimes recurved. Fruiting calyx reflexed, stellate pubescent, prickly. Berry shiny orange, globose, 0.8-1.3 cm in diam. Seeds sub-discoid, ca. 2 mm in diam. Fl. and fr. throughout the year. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The fruits are diuretic and expectorant. They are an effective treatment against diabetes, and even seem to be capable of curing it. They are also used for relieving cough and alleviating toothache. Applied externally, they are used for treating skin diseases. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: solanine; solanidine; solasodine; indioside L; indioside M;
indioside N; indioside O; 7-oxostigmasterol; 7-oxositosterol; diosgenin; yamogenin; syringaresinol; scopoletin; Indioside G;
Indioside H;
Indioside I;
Indioside J;
Indioside K; borassoside D; N-p-coumaroyltyramine; trans-Nferuloyloctopamine; tricalysioside U; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2): Diosgenin; Stigmasterol; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/231163
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200020612
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Indian%20Nightshade.html
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Solanum+violaceum
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed_Islam16/publication/325957274 |
| Reference | : | ~ Abeynayake Pemadasa, Jansz Manori, Rajoria Kshpira and Singh Sarvesh Kumar; "Role of Rajayapana basti with reference to Duchenne muscular Dystrophy: A review"; Int. J. Res. Ayurveda Pharm. (2016); 7(4): 7-10 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Solanales |
| Family | : Solanaceae - Potato family |
| Genus | : Solanum |
| Species | : Solanum violaceum Ortega |