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Taxon: Solanum virginianum L.

Genus: Solanum subgenus: Leptostemonum section: Melongena
Family: Solanaceae subfamily: Solanoideae tribe: Solaneae.
Nomen number: 401897
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:187. 1753 (Mant. pl. 2:340. 1771, as "virginicum")
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 13-Apr-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 17-Mar-2008
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions: 6 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia; Yemen
    Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran [s.]
    China: China - Guangdong, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan
    Eastern Asia: Taiwan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
    Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
    Malesia: Malaysia

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized elsewhere

References:

  • Boulos, L. 1999–. Flora of Egypt. (F Egypt)
  • Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
  • Daunay, M. C. et al. 1991. The use of wild species for the genetic improvement of Brinjal egg-plant and tomato. In: Hawkes, J. G. et al., eds., Solanaceae III: taxonomy, chemistry, evolution. (Solan III) 392. [mentions].
  • Hepper, F. N. & P. M. L. Jaeger. 1986. Name changes for two Old World Solanum species. Kew Bull. 41:434.
  • Humbert, J.-H., ed. 1936–. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores. (F Madag)
  • Knapp, S. & C. E. Jarvis. 1990. The typification of the names of New World Solanum species described by Linnaeus. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 104:363.
  • 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)
  • Whalen, M. D. 1984. Conspectus of species groups in Solanum section Leptostemonum. Gentes Herb. 12:263. [= the valid name for a South African entity (see S. linnaeanum Hepper & P. Jaeger)].
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
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Check other databases for Solanum virginianum L.:

  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?401897 (09 February 2010)

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