Solanum subinerme

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Solanum subinerme
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Solanum
Species:
S. subinerme
Binomial name
Solanum subinerme
Jacq.

Solanum subinerme is a species of flowering plant from the genus Solanum . [1] The species was originally described by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin.

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Description

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Original drawing of the species

Solanum subinerme is a flowering shrub that can grow up to 3 meters in height. It has purple flowers and berrylike fruit.

Range

Solanum subinerme has been observed and documented in the northern part of South America and the Caribbean. [2] [3]

Ecology

It has been suggested that cattle ingesting Solanum subinerme may experience cerebellar degeneration. [4] The main clinical signs are periodic crises with loss of balance, falls, opisthotonus, and nystagmus.

Look-a-likes

Solanum subinerme looks similar to Solanum junctum and Solanum poinsettiifolium . [5] S. subinerme has larger flowers, longer cauline prickles, and often has long straight prickles on the adaxial leaf surface that are lacking in Solanum junctum. Solanum poinsettiifolium has fewer spines, dense white tomentum on the abaxial leaf surfaces, stout unbranched inflorescences, and more extensive interpetalar corolla tissue than Solanum junctum.

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References

  1. Jacq. In: Enum. Pl. Carib. 15. (1760)
  2. Carnegie Museum; Museum, Carnegie; History, Carnegie Museum of Natural (1934). Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Vol. 22. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute.
  3. Uhl, Christopher; Clark, Kathleen (1983-09-01). "Seed Ecology of Selected Amazon Basin Successional Species". Botanical Gazette. 144 (3): 419–425. doi:10.1086/337392. S2CID   86791764.
  4. Everton Ferreira Lima; Franklin Riet-Correa; Rosane Maria Trindade de Medeiros (18 February 2014). "Spontaneous poisoning by Solanum subinerme Jack as a cause of cerebellar cortical degeneration in cattle". Toxicon . 82: 93–96. doi:10.1016/J.TOXICON.2014.02.007. ISSN   0041-0101. PMID   24561122. Wikidata   Q46928662.
  5. Stephen R Stern (20 June 2014). "A new species of spiny Solanum (Solanaceae) from Peru". PhytoKeys . 39 (39): 27–34. doi: 10.3897/PHYTOKEYS.39.7513 . ISSN   1314-2003. PMC   4152889 . PMID   25197223. Wikidata   Q22583049.