Solanum marginatum

TaxID: 329785

Basic Information

Solanum marginatum

Purple African nightshade, White-edged Nightshade

Solanum marginatum is a species of plant in the family Solanaceae known by the common names purple African nightshade and white-margined nightshade. It is native to Ethiopia and Eritrea, and it is known on other continents as an introduced species and sometimes a weed. It is a hairy shrub growing up to two meters tall. The large, distinctive, gray-green leaves are wavy along the edges, woolly on the undersides, and measure up to 18 centimeters long. The veins are white and lined with large, widely spaced prickles. The inflorescence contains several white flowers, hanging or nodding bisexual flowers and erect staminate flowers with large yellow anthers. The fruit is a yellow berry up to 5 centimeters wide. This is one of several Solanum species that contain solasodine.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Solanales

Solanaceae

Solanum

marginatum

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Leif & Anita Stridvall@BY
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(c) unknown@CC0
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(c) Luna Lunera@BY-NC
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(c) gillbsydney@BY-NC
Solanum marginatum
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(c) Damon Tighe@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
French Polynesia Absent —

Distribution (16 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
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Absent
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Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Australia Present —
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Present —
Chile Present —
Colombia Present —
Germany Present —
Ecuador Present —
Eritrea Present —
Spain Present —
Ethiopia Present —
United Kingdom Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR28314240 Leaf not provided - 25851416 Colombia

DNA Barcodes (5 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
SDH3594-15 - rbcLa 503 United States 1955-07-15 -
SDH3594-15 - matK 785 United States 1955-07-15 -
GBVK4595-11 - matK 945 - - -
GBVK4594-11 - matK 646 Portugal - 39.675292999999996, -7.9336624
GBITS54462-21 - ITS 619 - - -

Literature