Synonyms:
Solanum ficifolium Ortega
Solanum filicifolium sensu Abeywick
Group: Dicot
Family: Solanaceae - Potato family
Duration: Perennial
Growth Habit: Shrub Classification Report
Bangla/Vernacular Name: Tit Begun, Gotha Begun, Hat Begun.
Tribal Name: Kurkha (Murong), Bigol bichi (Chakma), Kargola (Marma), Engfy-poi (Khumi), Tit bayun (Rakhaing), Kontakari (Tripura), Borshiborduk (Tripura), Mida begul bichi (Chakma), Pley khauy (Murong), Bigal biji (Chakma), Kajo-ba (Marma), Khaja (Marma), Titar Berul (Tanchangya), Kurka Plawo (Murong).
An armed shrub, stellate-pubescent. Leaves simple, ovate, sinutely lobed. Flowers white, in extra axillary corymbose cymes. Berries globose, yellow.
Fruits contain sterolin (sitosterol-d-glucoside) and 0.1% gluco-alkaloid solasonine (Chopra et. al., 1992). Steriodal sapogenins - sisalagenone and torvogenin have also been isolated from fruits (Rastogi & Mehrotra, 1993). Leaves contain steroidal gluco-alkaloid, solasonine; steroidal sapogenins, neochlorogenin, neosolaspigenin and solaspigenin. They also contain triacontanol, tetratriacontainic acid, 3-tritriacontanone, sitosterol, stigmasterol and campesterol (Ghani, 2003).
Solanum torvum Sw.
Outskirt of the forests and roadsides, throughout the country.
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