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Taxon: Solanum mammosum L.

Genus: Solanum subgenus: Leptostemonum section: Acanthophora
Family: Solanaceae subfamily: Solanoideae tribe: Solaneae.
Nomen number: 101356
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:187. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 13-Nov-2002 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 14-Jan-2006
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions: 5 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • macawbush   (Source: Bothalia 33:8. 2003) – English
  • nipplefruit   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • pig's-ears   (Source: Bothalia 33:8. 2003) – English
  • Euter-Nachtschatten   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • NORTHERN AMERICA
    Mexico [s.]
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
    Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda - Antigua; Barbados; Cuba; Dominica; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines
    Northern South America: Venezuela
    Brazil: Brazil [possibly native]
    Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru

      Naturalized:
  • widely naturalized

      Cultivated:
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Brazil: Brazil

References:

  • Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
  • Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds. 1978–. Flora de Veracruz. (F Veracruz)
  • Heiser, C. B. 1971. Notes on some species of Solanum (sect. Leptostemonum) in Latin America. Baileya 18:60.
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • IPGRI. New World Fruits Database - on-line resource. (New World Fruits)
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
  • Knapp, S. & C. E. Jarvis. 1990. The typification of the names of New World Solanum species described by Linnaeus. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 104:342.
  • León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969 (F CubaLeon)
  • Levin, R. A. et al. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships among the "spiny solanums" Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum, Solanaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 93:157–169.
  • Missouri Botanical Garden. W³Tropicos - on-line resource. (TROPICOS)
  • Nee, M. 1979. Patterns in biogeography in Solanum, section Acanthphora. In: Hawkes, J. G. et al., eds., The biology and taxonomy of the Solanacae. (Biol Solan) 576.
  • Nee, M. 1991. Synopsis of Solanum section Acanthophora: A group of interest for glycoalkaloids. In: Hawkes, J. G. et al., eds., Solanaceae III: taxonomy, chemistry, evolution. (Solan III) 264.
  • Nee, M. 1999. Synopsis of Solanum in the New World. In: Nee, M. et al., eds., Solanaceae IV: advances in biology and utilization. (Solan IV) 328.
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Symon, D. E. 1981. A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia. J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 4:1–367.
  • Welman, W. G. 2003. The genus Solanum (Solanaceae) in southern Africa: subgenus Leptostemonum, the introduced sections Acanthophora and Torva. Bothalia 33:8–10.
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Check other databases for Solanum mammosum L.:

  • New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Solanaceae Source: A global taxonomic resource for the nightshade family
  • 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:

  • Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
  • Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
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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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