Taxon: Solanum aethiopicum L.

Common names:

• gilo   (Source: Solan Biol Syst 448) – English
  
• kumba   (Source: Solan Biol Syst 450) – English
  
• scarlet eggplant   (Source: Acta Hort 182:127.) – English
  
• shum   (Source: Solan Biol Syst 449) – English
  
• aubergine amère   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• jilo   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit; vegetable   (fide Solan BS 433-434. 1986)
  
• Gene sources: disease resistance for eggplant   (fide Solan III:397. 1991)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Africa

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Hepper, F. N. & P.-M. L. Jaeger. 1985. The typification of six Linnaean names in Solanum. Kew Bull. 40:387–391. [typification].
• Humbert, J.-H., ed. 1936–. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores. (F Madag)
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
• Lester, R. N. & L. Niakan. 1986. Origin and domestication of the scarlet eggplant, Solanum aethiopicum, from S. anguivi in Africa. In: D'Arcy, W. G., ed., Solanaceae: biology and systematics. (Solan Biol Syst) 433–456.
• Lester, R. N. 1986. Taxonomy of scarlet eggplant, Solanum aethiopicum L. Acta Hort. 182:125–132.
• Levin, R. A. et al. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships among the "spiny solanums" Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum, Solanaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 93:157–169.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Solanum aethiopicum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Solanum aethiopicum. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Solanum gilo Raddi
  (previously associated with 83 accessions)
• (=) Solanum gilo var. pierreanum (Pailleux & Bois) Bitter
  
• (=) Solanum naumannii Engl.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Solanum pierreanum Pailleux & Bois
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• (=) Solanum sudanense Hammerstein
  
• (=) Solanum zuccagnianum Dunal
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other databases for Solanum aethiopicum L.:

• Solanaceae Source: A global taxonomic resource for the nightshade family
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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