Herbarium JCB

Solanum violaceum Ortega

Family : SOLANACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Solanaceae
Species : Solanum violaceum
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Solanum aethiopicum L.
Vernacular name : Mullu Sundekaayi, Kaadu Badnekaayi, Ustikaayi (Kan.)
Collection Nos : HFP 2075, CJS 13444
Key identification features : Armed with short spines, stellately tomentose and is a prickly under shrub. Leaf is shallowly lobed, ovate-oblong, somewhat oblique. Cymes are short, few-flowered or many flowered. Calyx is somewhat prickly, corolla is blue, slightly stellately hairy. Berries are globose, about a cm across, glabrous and yellow.
Habit : Shrub
Comments : Not common. Roots and fruits medicinal. Runs wild and sometimes cultivated also.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Bellary, Bidar, Chikamagalur, Chitradurga, Davanagere, Hassan, Kolar, Mysore, Tumkur, Dakshina Kannada, Udupi
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere