Plant Details

Accepted name:: Solanum rostratum Dunal [Solanaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
beaked-sandbur	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
buffalo berry	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
buffalo bur	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
buffalo-berry	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
buffalo-bur	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
buffalobur nightshade	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
colorado bur	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
duraznillo	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Pl. Med. de S.Francisco Tlaltenco Tláhuac (Ortiz Palacios et al., 2017) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
horned nightshade	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
horse-nettle	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
kansas thistle	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
pincushion nightshade	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
prickly nightshade	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
spiny nightshade	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
stachel-nachtschatten	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
taggborre	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
texas thistle	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 15 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Androcera lobata Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 1: 129 (1818).
Androcera rostrata (Dunal) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 33: 150 (1906).
Ceranthera heterandra Raf. Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. 1: 176 (1818).
Nycterium flavum Lindl. in J.Donn, Hortus Cantabrig., ed. 11: 76 (1826).
Nycterium heterandrum Heynh. Alph. Aufz. Gew.: 440 (1847).
Nycterium lobatum Sweet Hort. Brit.: 301 (1826).
Nycterium luteum Torr. ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 199 (1841), not validly publ.
Nycterium rostratum (Dunal) Link Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 1: 189 (1821).
Solanum bejarense Moric. ex Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 330 (1852).
Solanum cornutum Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 329 (1852), not validly publ.
Solanum heterandrum Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 156 (1813), nom. illeg.
Solanum heterodoxum Andrieux ex Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 330 (1852), not validly publ.
Solanum hexandrum Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 87 (1840), sphalm.
Solanum propinquum M.Martens & Galeotti Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 12: 143 (1845).
Solanum rostratum var. subintegrum Fernald Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 36: 502 (1901).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Solanum rostratum Dunal	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. Med. de S.Francisco Tlaltenco Tláhuac (Ortiz Palacios et al., 2017) Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

Solanum rostratum Dunal

GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002)
Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Pl. Med. de S.Francisco Tlaltenco Tláhuac (Ortiz Palacios et al., 2017)
Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001)
U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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