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Pakistan | Family List | Solanaceae

8. Atropa L., Sp. Pl. 181. 1753. Gen. Pl. ed. 5.85. 1754; Boiss., Fl. Or. 4: 290. 1879; Clarke in Hook. F., Fl. Brit. Ind. 4: 241. 1883; Schoenbeck-Temesy in Rech.f., Fl. Iran 100: 39. 1972.

YASIN J. NASIR

Perennial, glabrous herbs with entire leaves. Flowers showy, bracteate, in a cinicinni. Calyx 5-partite, accrescent, slightly exceeding the fruit length. Corolla tubular, campanulate, 5-partite, lobes imbricate. Anthers dehiscing longitudinally. Filaments slender, attached near the base of the corolla, dense villous basally. Ovary bilocular, style slender; stigma ± bilobed. Fruit a berry. Seehs many, compressed.

4 species, Mediterranean to the Himalaya. Represented in Pakistan by 1 species.

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