&lt;i&gt;Solanum&lt;/i&gt; (Solanaceae) in Uganda

Bukenya, Z. R.; Carasco, J. F.

doi:10.4102/abc.v25i1.711

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“…In conclusion, those Europeans who have been intrigued by the fact that Africans eat a local vegetable closely resembling the highly poisonous Eurasian black nightshade, Solanum nigrum L. (Edmonds, 1977;Bukenya & Carasco, 1995;Watt & Breyer-Brandwijk, 1962) are mistaken: the widely consumed S. nigrum-like plant of Uganda is an intraspecific taxon under the edible S. scabrum and European concern about their use as vegetable is based upon incorrect taxonomy.…”

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African crop or poisonous nightshade; the enigma of poisonous or edible black nightshade solved

Olet

Heun

Lye

2005

African Journal of Ecology

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African crop or poisonous nightshade; the enigma of poisonous or edible black nightshade solved

Olet

Heun

Lye

2005

African Journal of Ecology

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“…Modern regional taxonomic treatments of the Old World members of the Morelloid clade have been done for Europe (Hawkes and Edmonds 1972), India (Ganapathi and Rao 1986a, 1988; Schilling and Andersen 1990), Africa and Madagascar (Bitter 1912a, 1912b, 1913a, 1921, 1923; Jaeger 1985; Bukenya and Hall 1988; Bukenya 1993; Bukenya and Carasco 1995; Edmonds and Chweya 1997) and Australia (Henderson 1974). Edmonds and Chweya (1997) remains the most thorough account of the black nightshades in the Old World, but includes only some of the species known to occur in Africa and does not treat species from Asia or those known from Australasia and the Pacific.…”

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“…Solanum scabrum is by far the most commonly cultivated of the Old World species and is cultivated throughout Africa (Berinyuy et al 2002; Defelice 2003; Bukenya and Carasco 1995; Olet et al 2006), especially in western Africa. It is also known from the Caribbean where it was most likely brought by enslaved peoples from western Africa.…”

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A revision of the Old World Black Nightshades (Morelloid clade of Solanum L., Solanaceae)

Särkinen¹,

Poczai²,

Barboza³

et al. 2018

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The Morelloid clade, also known as the black nightshades or “Maurella” (Morella), is one of the 10 major clades within Solanum L. The pantropical clade consists of 75 currently recognised non-spiny herbaceous and suffrutescent species with simple or branched hairs with or without glandular tips, with a centre of distribution in the tropical Andes. A secondary centre of diversity is found in Africa, where a set of mainly polyploid taxa occur. A yet smaller set of species is found in Australasia and Europe, including Solanum nigrum L., the type of the genus Solanum. Due to the large number of published synonyms, combined with complex morphological variation, our understanding of species limits and diversity in the Morelloid clade has remained poor despite detailed morphological studies carried out in conjunction with breeding experiments. Here we provide the first taxonomic overview since the 19th century of the entire group in the Old World, including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and islands of the Pacific. Complete synonymy, morphological descriptions, distribution maps and common names and uses are provided for all 19 species occurring outside the Americas (i.e. Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and islands of the Pacific). We treat 12 species native to the Old World, as well as 7 taxa that are putatively introduced and/or invasive in the region. The current knowledge of the origin of the polyploid species is summarised. A key to all of the species occurring in the Old World is provided, together with line drawings and colour figures to aid identification both in herbaria and in the field. Preliminary conservation assessments are provided for all species.

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“…It can reach up to 6 m in height [ 20 ]. S. aculeastrum is a native African plant that occurs from the South African Cape to the Imatong mountains in Sudan and westwards to Cameroon [ 47 ]. Its branchlets are densely covered in woolly hairs and possess sharp, curved thorns [ 48 ].…”

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A Bibliographic Assessment Using the Degrees of Publication Method: Medicinal Plants from the Rural Greater Mpigi Region (Uganda)

Schultz

Anywar

Quave

et al. 2021

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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In ethnopharmacological research, many field assessment tools exist. Yet, these miss that critical point of how to really determine which species merit the costly lab studies, e.g., evaluation of traditional use via pharmacological assays and isolation of bioactive secondary metabolites. This gap can be filled with the introduction of a new tool for literature assessment: the Degrees of Publication (DoPs). In this study, its application is illustrated through an extensive bibliographic assessment of 16 medicinal plant species that were recently identified in the Greater Mpigi region of Uganda as being frequently used by local traditional healers in the treatment of medical disorders (namely, Albizia coriaria, Cassine buchananii, Combretum molle, Erythrina abyssinica, Ficus saussureana, Harungana madagascariensis, Leucas calostachys, Microgramma lycopodioides, Morella kandtiana, Plectranthus hadiensis, Securidaca longipedunculata, Sesamum calycinum subsp. angustifolium, Solanum aculeastrum, Toddalia asiatica, Warburgia ugandensis, and Zanthoxylum chalybeum). These species are suspected to be understudied, and a thorough bibliographic assessment has not been previously performed. Thus, the objectives of our study were to undertake a comparative assessment of the degree to which each of these plant species has been studied in the past, including evaluation of the quality of the journals where results were published in. The determination of the DoPs enabled successful assessment of the degrees to which each individual plant species has been studied so far, while also taking into account the methodological “research chain of ethnopharmacology” from ethnobotanical studies (“traditional use”) to pharmacological assays (“bioactivity”) and finally to pharmacognostic research (“structure elucidation”). The significance of a research paper was assessed by determining whether its journal and publishing house were members of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). In total, 634 peer-reviewed publications were reviewed covering the period of 1960–2019, 53.3% of which were published in journals and by publishing houses affiliated with COPE (338 publications). The literature assessment resulted in the identification of understudied plants among the selected species. The majority of plants reviewed have not been sufficiently studied; six species were classified as being highly understudied and three more as being understudied: C. buchananii, F. saussureana, L. calostachys, M. lycopodioides, M. kandtiana, and S. calycinum subsp. angustifolium and A. coriaria, P. hadiensis, and S. aculeastrum, respectively. The newly introduced DoPs are a useful tool for the selection of traditionally used species for future laboratory studies, especially for pharmacological bioassays, isolation procedures, and drug discovery strategies.

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<i>Solanum</i> (Solanaceae) in Uganda

Cited by 16 publications

References 10 publications

African crop or poisonous nightshade; the enigma of poisonous or edible black nightshade solved

African crop or poisonous nightshade; the enigma of poisonous or edible black nightshade solved

A revision of the Old World Black Nightshades (Morelloid clade of Solanum L., Solanaceae)

A Bibliographic Assessment Using the Degrees of Publication Method: Medicinal Plants from the Rural Greater Mpigi Region (Uganda)

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