<documentID-CLB-Dataset="62488"ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.198.79514"ID-GBIF-Dataset="30f0f54f-e5af-493f-b792-c1c661ef03bf"ID-PMC="PMC9849010"ID-Pensoft-Pub="1314-2003-198-1"ID-Pensoft-UUID="486F1F1B4F5854D2831AAA341B9A322C"ID-PubMed="36760991"ModsDocID="1314-2003-198-1"checkinTime="1654168732655"checkinUser="pensoft"docAuthor="Aubriot, Xavier & Knapp, Sandra"docDate="2022"docId="784482CDCA3D396AF8289D751549EBE6"docLanguage="en"docName="PhytoKeys 198: 1-270"docOrigin="PhytoKeys 198"docPubDate="2022-06-01"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.198.79514"docTitle="Solanum macrocarpon L., Mant. Pl. Altera 205. 1771."docType="treatment"docVersion="5"id="486F1F1B4F5854D2831AAA341B9A322C"lastPageNumber="1"masterDocId="486F1F1B4F5854D2831AAA341B9A322C"masterDocTitle="A revision of the " spiny solanums " of Tropical Asia (Solanum, the Leptostemonum Clade, Solanaceae)"masterLastPageNumber="270"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="1"updateTime="1732649590965"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="C810B4B9602D96963EDD75EBB0B95584">A revision of the " spiny solanums " of Tropical Asia (Solanum, the Leptostemonum Clade, Solanaceae)</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="53272D58AE09A04B20DD20DF36FF95B6">Universite Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systematique et Evolution, 91190, Gif-sur-Yvette, France & The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK</mods:affiliation>
<taxonomicNameid="BC05966D88516B7B2E932B814961C8E0"ID-CoL="4Y374"authority="L., Mant. Pl. Altera 205. 1771."authorityName="L., Mant. Pl. Altera 205. 1771."class="Magnoliopsida"family="Solanaceae"genus="Solanum"higherTaxonomySource="CoL"kingdom="Plantae"lsidName="Solanum macrocarpon"order="Solanales"pageId="0"pageNumber="1"phylum="Tracheophyta"rank="species"species="macrocarpon">Solanum macrocarpon L., Mant. Pl. Altera 205. 1771.</taxonomicName>
<figureCitationid="46AF1060CB138D09D1361801E1D3D0C2"captionStart="Figure 22"captionStartId="F22"captionText="Figure 22. Introduced species of Solanum. Solanum chrysotrichum Schltdl. A detail of inflorescence (field photograph, unvouchered, India). Solanum elaeagnifolium Cav. B habit (Sampath Kumar et al. 126972, India) C detail view of a flower (Sampath Kumar et al. 126972, India) D detail view of a fruit (field photograph, unvouchered, India). Solanum jamaicense Mill. E detail view of a flower (Stern 265, Trinidad and Tobago) F detail view of fruits (Stern 265, Trinidad and Tobago). Solanum macrocarpon L. G detail view of flower (in cultivation at GAFL Avignon, unvouchered) H detail view of fruit (in cultivation at Radboud University, Nigmegen, unvouchered, material now at CGN, Wageningen). Photograph credits: A S. Knapp B-D X. Aubriot E, F S. Stern G, H S. Knapp."figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.198.79514.figure22"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/689715"pageId="0"pageNumber="1">Fig. 22G, H</figureCitation>
Matsum., Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 15: 56. 1901. Type. Cultivated in Tokyo, Japan "cult. Hort. Bot. Tokyo" (possibly from material collected in Taiwan but origin uncertain) (no specimens cited; no original material found).
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is widely distributed across Africa and has been introduced in cultivation in other parts of the world possibly in association with the trans-Atlantic slave trade (e.g., Brazil, the Caribbean, Central America). In tropical Asia
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Schumach. & Thonn. of sub-Saharan Africa. It is easily distinguished from other cultivated eggplants in tropical Asia by its large, glabrous or very sparsely pubescent leaves with attenuate bases decurrent onto the stem, its large flowers with copious interpetalar tissue, and its foliaceous calyx lobes.
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