Solanum sarmentosum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Solanum sarmentosum Nees

Protologue: Trans. Linn. Soc. 17: 58 (1837).

Synonyms

• Solanum maingayi O.Kuntze (1891).

Vernacular names

• Malaysia: terong pipit, terong puyoh, terong tikus (Peninsular).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore.

Uses

The leaf juice is drunk as a remedy for fever. The seeds are used as a vermifuge.

Observations

• An armed, straggling shrub.
• Leaves elliptical, 5-10 cm × 2-5 cm, lobed, almost glabrous above, sparsely hairy below.
• Inflorescence composed of 1-2 flowers on a peduncle of about 2.5 cm long.
• Calyx funnel-shaped, thorny, corolla about 2 cm in diameter, blue.
• Fruit about 12 mm in diameter, glabrous, orange when mature, seated on an enlarged calyx.

S. sarmentosum occurs as a weed in gardens and ruderal places.

Selected sources

• [202] Burkill, I.H., 1966. A dictionary of the economic products of the Malay Peninsula. Revised reprint. 2 volumes. Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Vol. 1 (A-H) pp. 1-1240. Vol. 2 (I-Z) pp. 1241-2444.
• [1126] Perry, L.M., 1980. Medicinal plants of East and Southeast Asia. Attributed properties and uses. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States & London, United Kingdom. 620 pp.
• [1227] Ridley, H.N., 1922-1925. The flora of the Malay Peninsula. 5 volumes. Government of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States. L. Reeve & Co, London, United Kingdom.

Main genus page

• Solanum (Medicinal plants)

Authors

• M.M. Blomqvist & Nguyen Tien Ban