Solanum torvum Sw.

 
  • Family : SOLANACEAE
  • Family (As per The Plant List) : Solanaceae
  • Species : Solanum torvum
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Solanum rudepannum Dunal
  • Common name : Turkey Berry
  • Vernacular name : Kudane, Sundekkayi (Kan.)
  • Collection Nos : CJS 11591, CJS 13379, Cramer, 4430
  • Key identification features : A large hairy shrub with prickles on the stem and along the petiole. Leaves are ovate-lanceolate, hairy and shallowly lobed. Flowers are in corymbose cymes. Petals are white with hairy lobes. Fruit a globose berry and is green.
  • Habit : Shrub
  • Native : West Indies
  • Comments : Fruit is edible and used as vegetable.
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Chikamagalur, Davanagere, Hassan, Kodagu, Kolar, Mysore, Raichur, Shimoga, Tumkur, Uttara Kannada, Udupi, Dakshina Kannada
  • Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara

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