Solanum macrocarpon
Solanum macrocarpon (binomen a Carolo Linnaeo anno 1771 statutum) est planta florens generis Solani subgenerisque Leptostemoni. Ab Linnaeo huic speciei attributus est "caulis rigens, pedalis, crassitie digiti, perennans, laevis, ramis annuis, erectis; folia oleracea, magna, cuneata, repanda, obtusa ... flores caerulei ... baccae magnitudine pomi, globosae, flavae, subsessiles." Per Africam sub climate tropicali colitur, etiam in Brasilia, media America, insulis Caribaeis, Asia austro-orientali. Plantae silvaticae haud reperiuntur: haec species formam cultam speciei S. dasyphylli esse censetur. Fructus et folia sicut holera comeduntur; in Uganda in medicinam adhibetur.

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Bibliographia 

 Muhammad A. Alsherbiny et al., "Comparative Molluscicidal and Schistosomicidal Potentiality of Two Solanum Species and Its Isolated Glycoalkaloids" in Pharmacognosy Research vol. 10 (2018) pp. 113-117
 
 Shalom Nwodo Chinedu et al., "Proximate and Phytochemical Analyses of Solanum aethiopicum L. and Solanum macrocarpon L. Fruits" in Research Journal of Chemical Sciences vol. 1 (Iunio 2011)
 Z. O. Gbile, S. K. Adesina, "Nigerian Solanum Species of Economic Importance" in Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden vol. 75 (1988) pp. 862-865 JSTOR
 
 Opeyemi B. Ogunsuyi et al., "Green leafy vegetables from two Solanum spp. (Solanum nigrum L and Solanum macrocarpon L) ameliorate scopolamine‐induced cognitive and neurochemical impairments in rats" in Food science & nutrition vol. 6 (2018) pp. 860-870
 María-Cortes Sánchez-Mata et al., "α-Solasonine and α-Solamargine Contents of Gboma (Solanum macrocarpon L.) and Scarlet (Solanum aethiopicum L.) Eggplants" in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry vol. 58 (2010) pp. 5502–5508

Nexus externi 

Species plantarum
Fructus
Solanum subg. Leptostemonum
Taxa Linnaei
Taxa 1771
Fruges Africae occidentalis
Plantae medicinales
Folia esculenta