Taxon: Solanum lasiocarpum Dunal

Common names:

• Indian nightshade   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• mao qie   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• ma uek   (Source: Solan Biol Syst 413.) – Transcribed Thai
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (used in Thai sauce "nam prek" fide Solan Biol Syst 413. 1986)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan [s.]
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: Solomon Islands

• also cultivated in tropical Asia

References:

• Solanaceae source: a global taxonomic resource for the nightshade family (on-line resource).
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Heiser, C. B., Jr. 1986. A new domesticated variety and relationships of Solanum lasiocarpum. Pp. 412–415 in: D'Arcy, W. G., ed., Solanaceae: biology and systematics.
• Levin, R. A. et al. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships among the "spiny solanums" Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum, Solanaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 93:157–169.
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. [= S. ferox L.].
• Nicolson, D. H. et al. 1988. An interpretation of Van Rheede's Hortus Malabaricus. Regnum Veg. 119:250.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. [mentions].
• Whalen, M. D. et al. 1981. Taxonomy of Solanum section Lasiocarpa. Gentes Herb. 12:100–106.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Solanum lasiocarpum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Solanum lasiocarpum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Solanum lasiocarpum.

Synonyms:

• (=) Solanum ferox auct.
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (=) Solanum indicum L.
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)

Check other web resources for Solanum lasiocarpum Dunal:

• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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