Taxon: Solanum torvum Sw.
Genus: Solanum subgenus: Leptostemonum section: Torva
Family: Solanaceae subfamily: Solanoideae tribe: Solaneae.
Nomen number: 101441
Place of publication: Prodr. 47. 1788
Name verified on: 13-Nov-2002 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 14-Jan-2006
Species priority site is: Potato Germplasm Introduction Station (NR6).
NO ACCESSIONS IN
NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.
SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE FEDERAL AND STATE NOXIOUS
WEED
- 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:
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FL*, HI*°, MA*, NC*, PR*.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
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- Link to noxious weed information from

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- 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)
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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
- 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.
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Synonyms:
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:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
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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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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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