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6. Withania Pauquy, Diss. Belladonne. 14. 1825. nom. cons.; Boiss., Fl. Or. 4:287. 1879; Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 4:239. 1883; Parker, For. Fl. Punj. 369. 1918; Kashyap, Lah. Dist. Fl. 181. 1936; Jafri, Fl. Kar. 298. 1966; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. Presd. Reprint edit. 2:340. 1967; Schoenbeck-Temesy in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. 100: 26. 1972.
YASIN J. NASIR
Physaloides Moench
Perennial unarmed shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire. Flowers subsessile, in axillary clusters. Calyx and corolla campanulate, 5-toothed, rarely more or less. Corolla slightly larger than the calyx. Stamens 5. Ovary bilocular. Berry globose. Seess many, small, compressed.
An old world genus with 10 species. Represented in Pakistan by 2 species.
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Stems and branches ± rigid, greyish green-white in colour. Plants polygamo-dioecious. Berry enclosed tightly within a ± coriaceous fruiting calyx |
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1 Withania coagulans |
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Stems and branches not rigid, green. Plants bisexual. Berry loosely enclosed in a membranous
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2 Withania somnifera |
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