Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Shrub
Distribution notes: Exotic
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📚 Overview
Description
Habit: A medium-sized shrub, upto 2m.
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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.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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Habit: Undershrub
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
Flower
In axillary fascicles, yellow. Flowering from April-July.
Fruit
A globose berry, orange, overtopped by the inflated, accrescent calyx; seeds discoid, trigonous. Fruiting from July-December.
Field tips
Branchlets hoary tomentose.
Leaf Arrangement
Alternate-spiral
Leaf Type
Simple
Leaf Shape
Elliptic-ovate
Leaf Apex
Acute
Leaf Base
Truncate-acute
Leaf Margin
Entire
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Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Cultivated
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Cultivated
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Description
Global Distribution
Paleotropics
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Palakkad, Wayanad
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Maharashtra: Ahmednagar, Nasik, Pune, Ratnagiri, Satara, Thane
Karnataka: Hassan, Mysore, N. Kanara
Kerala: Palakkad, Wynad
Tamil Nadu: All districts
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Grown in homestead areas, often cultivated in the home garden. Rare. Mediterranean, Canary Islands Cape of Good Hope and India.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
Medicinal
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Highly used in the Aurvedic medicine preparations. A unique herb with anti-stress adaptogenic action thats leads to a better physical fitness and helps cope with life's daily stress.
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- 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.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987; Matthew 1983
Information Listing > References
- 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.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987; Matthew 1983
STUDY OF DIVERSITY OF ETHNOBOTANICAL PLANTS USED BY THE MISHING TRIBES OF GOLAGHAT DISTRICT, ASSAM AND THEIR CONSERVATION
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Mayur BawriA Case Study on People’s Choice Conservation of Biodiversity in Homesteads of Assam, India
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Dr. Prosanta HazarikaNo Data
🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Solanales |
| Family | Solanaceae |
| Genus | Withania |
| Species | Withania somnifera |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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