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Taxonomy
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TAXON
Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal
FAMILY
Solanaceae Juss.
ALTERNATE FAMILY
nom. cons.
TRIBE
Solanoideae
GENUS
Withania Pauquy
SPECIES
somnifera (L.) Dunal A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1):453. 1852
Plant Description
A suffruticose shrub, 60-90 cm tall. Branches ascending. Shoots stellate-tomentose. Leaves 4-13 x 2-9 cm, elliptic-ovate to broadly ovate, acute, cuneate or oblique, entire to repand. Petiole 10-20 mm long. Flowers sessile to subsessile, greenish-yellow, in axillary clusters of 2-5.Calyx 2-2.5 x 2.5-3 mm, up to 2.0 x 14 mm in fruit, stellately hairy, becoming glabrescent and membranous; teeth 1-1.5 mm long, up to 8 mm in fruit, acute. Corolla lobes 2-2.5 mm long, triangular, tomentose to the outside. Anthers subincluded; filaments 1-2.5 mm long. Berry globose, 6-8 mm broad, red. Seeds sub pyriform to reniform, minutely reticulate-foveolate, yellowish-brown.
Flowering Period: Mostly throughout the year.
