Synonym : | Solanum sisymbriifolium f. lilacinum Kuntze |
Bangla Name : | Kanta Begun, Kantikari. |
English Name : | - |
Family : | Solanceae |
Disease : | Diuretic,expectorant,cough,asthma,pain,fever,sore throat,rheumatism,carminativel ,gonorrhea,cardioactive and antipyretic acivities. |
Description : | A viscoid and very prickly, erect herb or undershrub, up to 1.2 m tall with spreading branches, prickles straight, yellowish, 0.7 cm or more long. Leaves 10-12 cm long, sinuately lobed or deeply pinnatifid, pinnae lobed. Racemes terminal or extra-exillary, up to 30 cm long. Flowers up to 2 cm across. Calyx prickly, Corolla up to 2 cm long, white or bluish white. Berry 1-2 cm across, globose, scarlet, covered by enlarged and reflexed calyx lobes. |
Distribution : | All over Bangladesh in fallow lands. |
Chemical Constituents : | Isonuatigenin and nuatigenin have been isolated from roots (Rastogi & Mehrotra, 1990). |
Uses : | Used for the same purpose as that of Solanum virginianum (no. 645). |
Habit : | Herb |