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Solanum sisymbriifolium Lam.: A, Plant in natural habitat (Habit); B, A flower twig; C, Unripe berry (fruit); D, Ripe berry and prickles. DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES Solanum sisymbriifolium Lam., Tabl. Encycl. 2: 25. 1794. (Fig. 2) Solanum sisymbriifolium f. lilacinum Kuntze
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During the exploration of invasive flora in the northern part of Odisha, Solanum sisymbriifolium Lam. was collected from Rupsa of Balasore district. After reviewing its distribution through flora and available literatures, the species is found to be a new one to the Flora of Odisha. A detailed description with photographs, distribution, occurrence...
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... sisymbriifolium Lam., Tabl. Encycl. 2: 25. 1794. (Fig. 2) Solanum sisymbriifolium f. lilacinum Kuntze Perennial under shrub with maximum height of 2 meter. Stem sub erect or scandent with glandular hairs and prickled throughout. Prickles up to 15mm long, yellow in colour and sharped. Leaf alternate, lamina ovate- oblong, 9-16 × 4-11 cm, deeply lobed, pinnatified with many prickles along main ...
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... In India, S. sisymbriifolium was introduced around 1980 (Jain and Borthakur 1986), and it is now reported to be distributed chiefly in the southern part (Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka) (Srivastava et al. 2015), and also in the states of West Bengal (Chakravarty et al. 1996;Basak et al. 2017), Odisha (Sahu et al. 2017), Jharkhand (Panda et al. 2014), Bihar (Mishra and Kumar 1992), Delhi (Mishra 2015), Rajasthan (Yadav and Menna 2007), Maharashtra, Gujarat, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim, Assam, Manipur (Srivastava et al. 2015), and Tripura (Saha and Datta 2013). In West Bengal, S. sisymbriifolium can be found growing in wastelands and also flourishing alongside rail lines and roadsides. ...
Hunger and malnutrition caused by the exploding world population, emerging antibiotic resistance and novel strains of pathogenic organisms causing diseases unbeknownst to humanity have increased the importance of underutilised plants as unexplored natural product resources for nutrition and medicine. The vegetable family Solanaceae houses several renowned medicinal plants, many of them being wild and utilised by native people throughout the world since ancient times. Solanum sisymbriifolium Lam., native to South America, has been used for its edible fruits and as traditional remedies by the indigenous people. It is currently spreading throughout the world as an invasive species due to its adaptive nature and high disease resistance. However, unlike in South America, this plant is not exploited as much around the world, due to a lack of knowledge of its utilities. This review summarises various published reports on S. sisymbriifolium biology and beneficial features, fetched from ScienceDirect, Pubmed, Springer, and Google Scholar, using search terms “S. sisymbriifolium”, “phytochemistry”, “pharmacology”, “nutrition”, which validated the medicinal and nutritional properties of its natural products. It is deliberated to popularise this plant so that scientists and common people can consider it a source of nutrition and pharmaceuticals in the future.
