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Solanum trilobatum
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Family:
SOLANACEAE
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Citation: Solanum trilobatum L., Sp. Pl. 185. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 229. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 938(659). 1923; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 574. 2009.
Solanum acetosaefolium Lam., Encycl. 4: 306. 1797.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Mothirangani, Thothuvala
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Description:
A slender prickly scrambling shrub, prickles curved, broad-based, yellowish and numerous along the stems, otherwise almost glabrous. Leaves rounded-ovate in outline, obtusely 3-5-lobed, 2-7 cm long, 1-4 cm wide, glabrous or slightly stellate, with a few prickles along the petiole and midrib. Inflorescences extra-axillary, peduncle short, 3-9-flowered; pedicels 1-2 cm long, widely divergent. Calyx 3 mm long, with narrow teeth, sparsely stellate. Corolla 12-16 mm long, deeply lobed, stellate-pubescent outside, purple, reflexed; stamens protruding, anthers 7 mm long, yellow. Fruits globose, c.15 mm diam., scarlet. Seeds compressed, 3 mm diam.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-August
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District(s):
Idukki, Palakkad, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests
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Distribution:
Indo-Malesia
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Violet
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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