• Family : SOLANACEAE
  (Nightshade Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BAINGAN FAMILY (बैंगन फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : SOLANACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Mothi-ringni (Marathi)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Comments / notes : A common weed in open fields. Occasional in forests an undergrowth
• Key identification features : Armed shrub, prickles long, straight
• Flower, Fruit : May-February
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Tamil Nadu : Theni district
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state, Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Ravichandran V personal observation 2014 Aug.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Solanum indicum. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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