• Family : SOLANACEAE
  (Nightshade Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BAINGAN FAMILY (बैंगन फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : SOLANACEAE
• Basionym : Solanum indicum var. multiflorum Clarke
• Synonym(s) : Solanum anguivi var. multiflora (Roth ex Roem. & Schult.) Chithra
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Not found in The Plant List
• Vernacular name : Cheruchunda, Cheruazhuthana, Nilavalutina (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen- and Shola forests
• Flower, Fruit : November-January
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Kew Bull. 46(3): 545. 1991 [27 Sep 1991]; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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 violaceum subsp. multiflorum. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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