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Withania somnifera
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Family:
SOLANACEAE
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Citation: Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal in DC., Prodr. 13: 453. 1852; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 239. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 940(660). 1923; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 575. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Amukkuram
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Tamil name(s):
Aswagandha
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English name(s):
Winter cherry
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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 sub included; filaments 1-2.5 mm long. Berry globose, 6-8 mm broad, red. Seeds sub pyriform to reniform, minutely reticulate-foveolate, yellowish-brown.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
July-January
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District(s):
Palakkad, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Cultivated
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Distribution:
Paleotropics
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Yellow
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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