Plant Details

Accepted name:: Solanum torvum Sw. [Solanaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
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Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
amarakkay	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
anchangti	Other	Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019)
asaman-ntorewa	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
asantewa	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
ban bibi	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
bedru	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
beduru	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
berenjena cimarrona	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bhurat	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bibi	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
bihi	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
borasunde	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bovasonde	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bovasunde	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
brhati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
brihati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
buffalo's ear	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
busende	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
busunde	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cenkuronikacceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cenkuronikam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chichita	Other	Guatemalan Med. Pl. Against Cancer (Cates et al., 2014)
chinde	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chunda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chundai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
chunde	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chusai	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
cularkay	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cularkaycceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cunta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cuntai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cuntai varral	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cuntankay	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
curacica	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
curapakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
curuntaikkay	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
curutkay	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cuvacakacokkini	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cì fān qié	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
devil's-fig	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
dhoravaange	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
doralee	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dà jīn kòu	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
dīng qié gēn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
gauta	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
gonabatu	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
goshtha-vaartaaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
goth-begun	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
henji	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
huáng pú qié	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
iruttiyakuttam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jurubeba	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitãoa et al., 2014) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
jurubeba-branca	Other	Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
jīn niǔ kòu	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kaada kallatti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaadu badane	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaadu kadane	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaadu kallate	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaadu kallunte	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaadu sonde	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kadakadana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kadakallate	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kadchunde	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kadubadene	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kadusonde	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kamsar kambar	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
kancakacceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kancakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karase	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karashe	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
katchunde	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
katikipalam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kattucunta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
katukallante	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
konda vusti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kondavuste	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kottukkattari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
malaiccuntai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
malasundai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mirámira furúda	Other	Med. Pl. E Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996)
nattuccuntai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nsusuaa	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
nsusuwa	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
nwomenle ndolora	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
nwomenle nyanya	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
padarchunda	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
pasanamaini	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pea aubergine	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
pea eggplant	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pendejera	Other	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
pitiratakacceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pitiratakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pittalam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pittatincam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
plate brush	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
platebrush	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pokak	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
puttaricunta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ran-baingan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
samanntroba	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
sesa taatsho	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
seti bihi	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
shui qie	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
shundakkayi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shuǐ qié	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
sonde	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sonde gida	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sparrow's brinjal	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
sundai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sundaikai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sundakkai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
susruba	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
susumber	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
takokak	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
tehenyi	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
telinga kerbau	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
terong pipit	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
terongan	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
terung belah	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
terung belanda	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
terung mangas	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
terung mangon	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
terung pipit	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
terung pipit putih	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
terung rajah wang	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
terung rembang	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
teufels-nachtschatten	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
thibbatu	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
thulo bihi	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
tibaigum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tit-baigun	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
titbagun	Other	Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019)
tiān qié zǐ	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
torvum	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
tottitanaipparpamakki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
turkeyberry	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
usti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vitamin b complex fruit	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
west indian turkey berry	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
yī miàn zhēn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
ärtaubergin	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
一面针	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
丁茄根	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
刺番茄	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
大金扣	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
天茄子	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
水茄	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
金鈕扣	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
金钮扣	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
黃蒲茄	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Fruit, Leaves, Root, Seeds		Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
fruit, leaves, root		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Leaves		Guatemalan Med. Pl. Against Cancer (Cates et al., 2014)
leaves, fruit, root	oil	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
fruit	mature fresh or dried fruits	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
leaf, root		Med. Pl. E Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996)
root, fruit		Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
root, fruit		Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007)
Fruit, Root		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 29 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Solanum mammosum Herb. ex Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 260 (1852).
Myristica fatua var. compactum C.H.Wright in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. 4(2): 231 (1906).
Solanum acanthifolium Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 260 (1852).
Solanum amoenum Jungh. Tijdschr. Natuurl. Gesch. Physiol. 7: 309 (1840).
Solanum campechiense Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 260 (1852).
Solanum crotonoides Michx. ex Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 260 (1852).
Solanum daturifolium Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 261 (1852).
Solanum daturifolium var. albescens Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 261 (1852).
Solanum ficifolium Ortega Nov. Pl. Descr. Dec.: 116 (1800).
Solanum heterophyllum Balb. ex Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 260 (1852), not validly publ.
Solanum largiflorum C.T.White Queensland Agric. J., n.s., 8: 170 (1917).
Solanum macaonense Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 264 (1852).
Solanum maccai Bertero ex Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 260 (1852).
Solanum mannii C.H.Wright Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1894: 129 (1894).
Solanum mayanum Lundell Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 8: 85 (1942).
Solanum obtusifolium Hartw. ex Sendtn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 10: 95 (1846).
Solanum sanctum Jan ex Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 260 (1852).
Solanum silarium Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. Numer. List: n.° 2627 (1831).
Solanum stramoniifolium Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 2: 22 (1794), nom. illeg.
Solanum torvum f. apaense Hassl. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 15: 230 (1918).
Solanum torvum var. daturifolium O.E.Schulz Symb. Antill. 6: 236 (1909).
Solanum torvum f. gardneri Hassl. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 15: 230 (1918).
Solanum torvum f. grandifolium O.E.Schulz ex O.C.Schmidt Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 32: 93 (1933).
Solanum torvum var. inerme Nees Trans. Linn. Soc. London 17: 54 (1834).
Solanum torvum var. integerrimum Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 455 (1891).
Solanum torvum var. lanatum Sendtn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 10: 95 (1846).
Solanum torvum var. rubiginosum Sendtn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 10: 95 (1846).
Solanum torvum var. sinuatolobatum Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 455 (1891).
Solanum wightii Miq. ex C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 4: 234 (1883), not validly publ.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Solanum mammosum	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Solanum torvum	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993) Med. Pl. Mexico (Heinrich et al., 1998) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Solanum torvum Sev.	Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017)
Solanum torvum Sw	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
Solanum torvum Sw.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Guatemalan Med. Pl. Against Cancer (Cates et al., 2014) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. E Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996) Med. Pl. Latin America (Duke, 2009) Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitãoa et al., 2014) Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Solanum torvum Swartz	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Fijian Med. Pl. (Cambie & Ash, 1994) Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Solanum torvum Swartz.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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