• Family : SOLANACEAE
• Family (As per The Plant List) : Solanaceae
• Species : Solanum nigrum
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Solanum americanum Mill.
• Common name : Black Nightshade
• Vernacular name : Kakamachi (San.); Kamuni (Hin.); Kakki hannu soppu, Kakesoppina-gida (Kan.)
• Collection Nos : HFP 2098, CJS 16110
• Key identification features : Unarmed herb. Leaves are broadly ovate, entire or slightly lobed. Flowers are white, extra-axillary in umbellate cymes, 4-8 flowered. Fruit is a black berry.
• Habit : Herb
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• Comments : Used as vegetable and ripe fruits are edible.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Distribution Locality : Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamrajnagar, Chikamagalur, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Yadgir
• Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara

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