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Solanum is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants, which include three food crops of high economic importance: the potato, the tomato and the eggplant (aubergine, brinjal). It is the largest genus in the nightshade family Solanaceae, comprising around 1,500 species.
The family belongs to the order Solanales, in the asterid group and class Magnoliopsida (dicotyledons). The Solanaceae consists of about 98 genera and some 2,700 species, with a great diversity of habitats, morphology and ecology. The name Solanaceae derives from the genus Solanum. The etymology of the Latin word is unclear. The name may come ...
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This is a list of species in the plant genus Solanum. There may be as many as 1,500 species worldwide. With some 1240 accepted specific and infra-specific taxa of the more than 4,000 described, the genus Solanum contains more species than any other genus in the family Solanaceae and it is one of the largest among the angiosperms.
Description. Annual, perennial, or tropical herbs or vines with alternate leaves and a watery sap. The flowers are in cymes or solitary, perfect, showy, 4-5 parted, with thick yellow anthers. Fruits are fleshy berries. Most species have a distinctive scent common to the genus.
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- Some species are problem weeds
Solanaceae Source aims to provide a worldwide taxonomic monograph of the nightshade family whose species that are used as food (potatoes, tomatoes and eggplants), medicines (henbane and deadly nightshades) and in horticulture (petunias).
Sep 12, 2006 · World War Z is a novel by Max Brooks which depicts a fictional outbreak of the Solanum virus in China during the mid-2000s. It shows the social, economic, political, cultural, technological, and ecological effects of a zombie apocalypse.
Sep 22, 2021 · 1.1 Introduction. Solanaceae is a cosmopolitan family with mostly worldwide distribution on all continents except Antarctica. The greatest concentration of diversity is in Central and South America and it is believed that the family originated there (Hunziker 1979 ).
