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Solanum vagum
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Family:
SOLANACEAE
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Citation: Solanum vagum Heyne ex Nees, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 17: 48. 1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 230. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 936(657). 1923; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 323. 1994.
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Description:
Unarmed spreading shrubs, 1-2.5 m high; branches sparsely white stellate-pubescent. Leaves alternate, 6.5-14 x 2.5 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, repand-sinuate, glabrescent above, sparsely stellate-pubescent beneath, acute or shortly acuminate at apex, acute or narrowed at base. Flowers white in extra-axillary pedunculate racemose cymes. Calyx lobes linear-lanceolate, acuminate, stellate pubescent, 3-4 mm long, recurved. Berries 0.6-0.7 cm in diameter, globose, red when ripe; seeds flat, 3-4 nn long, slightly scaly.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
February-July
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District(s):
Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grasslands
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
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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):
White
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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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Endemic to:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Manantody
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