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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.
This is a list of species in the plant genus Solanum. There may be as many as 1,500 species worldwide. [1] . 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.
Solanum is the largest genus in the family Solanaceae, comprising of about 2000 species distributed in the subtropical and tropical regions of Africa, Australia, and parts of Asia, e.g., China, India and Japan. Many of them are economically significant species.
- Joseph Sakah Kaunda, Ying-Jun Zhang
- 10.1007/s13659-019-0201-6
- 2019
- Nat Prod Bioprospect. 2019 Apr; 9(2): 77-137.
Nightshade, (genus Solanum), genus of about 2,300 species of flowering plants in the nightshade family (Solanaceae). The term nightshade is often associated with poisonous species, though the genus also contains a number of economically important food crops, including tomato (Solanum lycopersicum),
Sep 21, 2022 · The Solanum family of plants is a large genus within the Solanaceae family that contains up to 2,000 species ranging from food crops to medicinal herbs. The genus Solanum has received much interest in chemical and biological studies over the last 30 years.
- 10.1155/2022/4952221
- 2022
- J Trop Med. 2022; 2022: 4952221.
- Streptophyta
May 5, 2022 · (Image credit: hsagencia) By Amy Grant. last updated 5 May 2022. The Solanum family of plants is a large genus under the family umbrella of Solanaceae that includes up to 2,000 species, ranging from food crops, such as the potato and the tomato, to various ornamentals and medicinal species.
Jul 4, 2023 · Solanum is one of the world's largest and economically most important plant genera, including 1245 currently accepted species and several major and minor crops (e.g., tomato, potato, brinjal eggplant, scarlet eggplant, Gboma eggplant, lulo, and pepino).
