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Khurasani Yavani

Common Names


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About    Taxonomy


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CLASSIFICATION


TAXON 


Hyoscyamus niger L.

FAMILY 


Solanaceae Juss.

ALTERNATE FAMILY


nom. cons.

TRIBE


Solanoideae

GENUS 


Hyoscyamus L.

SPECIES


niger L. Sp. pl. 1:179. 1753


Plant Description


Plants annual or biennial, up to 1.5 m tall, pubescent to hairy. Leaves sessile, 5-12.5 x 2.8-7.5 cm, ovate-oblong, sinuate to pinnately lobed, ± semi-amplexicaul, glandular-pubescent, especially on the nerves and margins. Calyx 14-16 mm long, up to 26 mm in fruit, campanulate to infundibuliform, ± urceolate in fruit, nervose, glandular-pilose; lobes triangular, aristate. Corolla (18-) 20-30 mm long, infundibuliform, pale yellow, with brown-purple nerves; lobes ± obtuse, unequal; tube glandular-pilose to the outside. Stamens subexserted, unequal. Lower part of filament pilose, purplish. Style exceeding the stamens in length, purplish. Pyxidium 11-13 mm long, ± pitcher-shaped; operculum usually of a darker colour. Seeds ± 1.2 mm long, reniform, rugose-tuberculate, brown.

Flowering Period: June-July.

 

*Description source:  Efloras.org

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