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Solanum dasyphyllum Schum. & Thonn. [family SOLANACEAE]

Date Updated: 30 April 2005

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 5
Names
Solanum dasyphyllum Schum. & Thonn. [family SOLANACEAE] Solanum duplosinuatum Klotzsch [family SOLANACEAE]
Common names
SENEGAL: WOLOF diakhatu (JMD) GUINEA-BISSAU: FULA-PULAAR (Guinea-Bissau) ede (JDES) PEPEL brémbè (JDES) SUSU bussú (JDES) SIERRA LEONE: BULOM (Kim) gbag (?) (FCD) FULA-PULAAR (Sierra Leone) jakato-brurε (FCD) GOLA gbσ (FCD) kpσ-gbegbe (FCD)
Uses
(leaf, fruit) Food: general Medicines: generally healing (leaf-sap) Medicines: pain-killers (fruit) Medicines: sedatives, etc. (leaf-sap, seed) Medicines: stomach troubles (leaf-sap) Medicines: laxatives, etc. (fruit) Medicines: cutaneous, subcutaneous parasitic infection (leaf-sap) Medicines: dropsy, swellings, oedema, gout (fruit) Medicines: malnutrition, debility (fruit) Medicines: antidotes (venomous stings, bites, etc.) (root) Phytochemistry: falvones (leaf) Phytochemistry: alkaloids Agri-horticulture: ornamental, cultivated or partially tended (flower) Agri-horticulture: shade-trees (flower) Products: dyes, stains, inks, tattoos and mordants
Description
A semi-woody undershrub to 1½ m high, hirsute or armed with prickles, naturalized, not known in the wild state, and occurring throughout the Region and tropical Africa to S Africa (10). It is very closely related to S. macrocarpon Linn. which is glabrous
References
References:1. Abbiw, 1990: 9, as S. dasyphyllum. 2. Adegoke & al., 1968: 13–33, as S. dasyphyllum. 3. Bouquet, 1969: 231, as S. dasyphyllum Schum. & Thonn. 4. Busson, 1965: 382 as S. dasyphyllum Schum. & Thonn. 5. Chevalier, 1937,b: 175, as S. duplosinuat
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Date Updated: 30 April 2005

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 5
Names
Solanum dasyphyllum Schum. & Thonn. [family SOLANACEAE] Solanum duplosinuatum Klotzsch [family SOLANACEAE]
Common names
SENEGAL: WOLOF diakhatu(JMD) GUINEA-BISSAU: FULA-PULAAR (Guinea-Bissau) ede (JDES) PEPEL brémbè(JDES) SUSU bussú (JDES) SIERRA LEONE: BULOM (Kim) gbag (?)(FCD) FULA-PULAAR (Sierra Leone) jakato-brurε (FCD) GOLA gbσ (FCD)kpσ-gbegbe (FCD)
Uses
(leaf,fruit) Food: general Medicines: generally healing (leaf-sap) Medicines: pain-killers (fruit) Medicines: sedatives, etc. (leaf-sap,seed) Medicines: stomach troubles (leaf-sap) Medicines: laxatives, etc. (fruit) Medicines: cutaneous, subcutaneous parasitic infection (leaf-sap) Medicines: dropsy, swellings, oedema, gout (fruit) Medicines: malnutrition, debility (fruit) Medicines: antidotes (venomous stings, bites, etc.) (root) Phytochemistry: falvones (leaf) Phytochemistry: alkaloids Agri-horticulture: ornamental, cultivated or partially tended (flower) Agri-horticulture: shade-trees (flower) Products: dyes, stains, inks, tattoos and mordants
Description
A semi-woody undershrub to 1½ m high,hirsute or armed with prickles, naturalized, not known in the wildstate, and occurring throughout the Region and tropical Africa to SAfrica (10). It is very closely related to S. macrocarponLinn. which is glabrous
References
References:1. Abbiw, 1990: 9, as S. dasyphyllum.2. Adegoke & al., 1968: 13–33, as S.dasyphyllum. 3. Bouquet, 1969: 231, as S. dasyphyllumSchum. & Thonn. 4. Busson, 1965: 382 as S. dasyphyllumSchum. & Thonn. 5. Chevalier, 1937,b: 175, as S.duplosinuat
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Solanum dasyphyllum Schum. & Thonn. [family SOLANACEAE]
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