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Jurubeba (Solanum paniculatum) is a nightshade common in almost all of Brazil. It is used as a medicinal plant and has a bitter taste.
An infusion of its stem and its root in sugar cane alcohol (cachaça) is popularly used as an apéritif or a digestif.
Traditional medicine recommends using a tea as a cardiovascular tonic; for stimulating appetite, liver, and spleen; against digestive problems, and for its diuretic, hypoglycemic, antianemic, febrifugal, and cicatrizant properties. It has also been used for treating infections of the skin, like acne.
Synonyms
Well-known in its native range, this species has been described time and again under different now-invalid names. Some of these are homonyms of other Solanum taxa.[1]
- Solanum belfort Vand.
- Solanum belfortianum Dunal
- Solanum botelhianum Dunal (unjustified emendation)
- Solanum botelho Vand.
- Solanum chloroleucum Dunal
- Solanum dictyoticum Roem. & Schult.
- Solanum jubeba Vell.
- Solanum macronema Sendtn.
- Solanum manoelii Moric.
- Solanum reticulatum Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.
- Solanum reticulatum of de Jussieu from Dunal in de Candolle is S. vellozianum.
- Solanum reticulatum of Dunal in Poiret is S. crotonoides as described by Lamarck
- Solanum rothelianum Steud. (lapsus)
Two varieties were once recognized, but they are not generally considered valid anmyore:[1]
- Solanum paniculatum var. ellipticum Chodat
- Not to be confused with S. ellipticum, described by Brown. The S. ellipticum of de Conceição Vellozo refers to S. cylindricum.
- Solanum paniculatum var. integrifolium Dunal
- Not to be confused with the S. integrifolium of Poiret, which refers to S. aethiopicum
Similar nightshade species that were once included with S. paniculatum but are now considered distinct are:[1]
- Solanum pseudoauriculatum (as f. flavescens or ssp. pseudoauriculatum)
- Solanum acutilobum (as var. acutilobum)
- Solanum albidum Dunal (as var. chulumani)
Footnotes
References
- Solanaceae Source (2008): Solanum paniculatum. Version of February 2008. Retrieved 2008-SEP-25.
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