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Taxon: Solanum melongena L.

Genus: Solanum subgenus: Leptostemonum section: Melongena
Family: Solanaceae subfamily: Solanoideae tribe: Solaneae.
Nomen number: 101312
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:186. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 20-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 14-Jan-2006
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions: 770 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.
  • only available ) NPGS core subset accessions for the crop ‘EGGPLANT’ ) or .


Common names:

  • aubergine   (Source: Solan III :369. 1991) – English
  • brinjal eggplant   (Source: Acta Hort 182:127.) – English
  • eggplant   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • béringène   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • mélongène   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • Aubergine   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • Eierfrucht   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • maranziana   (Source: F Ital ) – Italian
  • melanzana   (Source: F Ital ) – Italian
  • mulignana   (Source: F Ital ) – Italian
  • petrociana   (Source: F Ital ) – Italian
  • nasu   (Source: Names Batra ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  • berinjela   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • berenjena   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Naturalized:
  • sometimes naturalized

      Cultivated:
  • widely cultivated

      Other:
  • probably origin s.e. Asia

References:

  • PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
  • Batra, L. R. 1995. Names of Japanese plants sorted by their Japanese names in Romanized Katakana and scientific nomenclature. (Names Batra)
  • Correll, D. S. 1962. The potato and its wild relatives. Contr. Texas Res. Found., Bot. Stud. 4:1-606. (Potato WR) 35.
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Furini, A. & J. Wunder. 2004. Analysis of eggplant (Solanum melongena)-related germplasm: morphological and AFLP data contribute to phylogenetic interpretations and germplasm utilization. Theor. Appl. Genet. 108:197–208.
  • Hepper, F. N. & P.-M. L. Jaeger. 1985. The typification of six Linnaean names in Solanum. Kew Bull. 40:387–391. [typification].
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
  • Lester, R. N. & S. M. Z. Hasan. 1990. The distinction between Solanum incanum L. and Solanum insanum L. (Solanaceae). Taxon 39:521–523.
  • Lester, R. N. & S. M. Z. Hasan. 1991. Origin and domestication of the Brinjal egg-plant, Solanum melongena, from S. incanum, in Africa and Asia. In: Hawkes, J. G. et al., eds., Solanaceae III: taxonomy, chemistry, evolution. (Solan III) 369–387.
  • Lester, R. N. 1986. Taxonomy of scarlet eggplant, Solanum aethiopicum L. Acta Hort. 182:126–127.
  • Levin, R. A. et al. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships among the "spiny solanums" Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum, Solanaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 93:157–169.
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia. (F Ital)
  • 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)
  • Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 8:255.
  • Symon, D. E. 1981. A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia. J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 4:1–367.
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
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Check other databases for Solanum melongena L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • 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.

Images:

  • GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
  • Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
  • Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images 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.
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