Botanical Name

Solanum gilo Raddi var. gilo [Solanaceae]

Specimen Type

Herbarium Sheet [Preserved Specimen]

Collector

Peter Thonning

Collection Date-s

1799 – 1803

Collection Location

southern part of the country [Ghana]

Colonial Context

Danish Gold Coast of Africa 1663–2080

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

On sheet: leg. Thonning in Guinea

Label1: fructu costaldi ut in Lycopersic Solanum geminifol Suffrut. inerme fol. geminis ovatis
subrepandis stellato pubescentibus racemis simpl. infrafoliaceis distichis Th Sol. insanum

Label2: Solanum gilo Raddi var. det Bitter

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 102 II 7

Solanum geminifolium Thonn. HOLOTYPE. Beskr. Guineiske Pl.: 121 (1827)

Ownership and Collection Management History

Thonning 143

Common Names

Sebae [Schumacher/Thonning]

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

[Hepper (1976) p. 121:] "Is cultivated." "The fruit is prepared in different ways; it is chiefly used in soup or is prepared as a mash with salt; Spanish pepper; palm oil and some dry fish."

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

C10004586

C10004586

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)