Taxon: Solanum torvum Sw.

A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

FL*, HI*°, MA*, NC*, PR*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• devil's-fig   (Source: F Aust ) – English
  
• pea eggplant   (Source: Cornucopia ) – English
  
• platebrush   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 8:258.) – English
  
• susumber   (Source: Cornucopia ) – English
  
• turkeyberry   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• Teufels-Nachtschatten   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• pokak   (Source: Cornucopia ) – Indonesian
  
• takokak   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 8:258.) – Indonesian
  
• terong pipit   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 8:258.) – Malay
  
• jurubeba   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• berenjena cimarrona   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• terongan   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: graft stock   (for eggplant & naranjilla fide Pl Res SEAs 8:260. 1993)
  
• Human food: fruit; vegetable   (fide Cornucopia)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Bothalia 33:15. 2003)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Econ Pl Aust; J. Adel BG 4:116. 1981)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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; Dominican Republic; Grenada; Haiti; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil - Rio de Janeiro
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador

      Naturalized:

• widely naturalized elsewhere

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia. (F Aust)
• Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds. 1978–. Flora de Veracruz. (F Veracruz)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
• Levin, R. A. et al. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships among the "spiny solanums" Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum, Solanaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 93:157–169.
• Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980- (F Peru)
• 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) 326.
• Pittier, H. F. et al. 1945–1947. Catálogo de la flora venezolana. (L Venez)
• 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)
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
• Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 8:258–260.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
• 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.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Solanum torvum.

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

Synonyms:

• (=) Solanum ficifolium Ortega
  

Check other databases for Solanum torvum Sw.:

• ABIF: Australian Biodiversity Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
• 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
• 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:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?101441 (09 February 2010)

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