Withania

Withania
Withania frutescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Subfamily: Solanoideae
Tribe: Physaleae
Subtribe: Withaninae
Genus: Withania[1]
Pauquy
Species

See text
Synonyms

Alicabon Raf.
Archiphysalis Kuang
Manoelia Bowdich
Opsago Raf.
Physaliastrum Makino
Physaloides Moench
Puneeria Stocks

Withania is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae.

Contents

Etymology

Withania Pauquy, Diss. Bellad. 14 (1825) (nom. cons.); Supposed to be in honour of Henry Witham, a British geologist and writer on fossil botany in the nineteenth century.[2]

Selected species

References

  1. ^ "Withania Pauquy". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2009-09-01. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?12857. Retrieved 2010-04-15. 
  2. ^ "Withania". Electronic Flora of South Australia. Government of South Australia, Department of Environment and Natural Resources. http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/efsa/lucid/Solanaceae/Solanaceae%20species/key/Australian%20Solanaceae%20species/Media/Html/Withania.htm. Retrieved 2011-03-23. 
  3. ^ "Withania coagulans (Stocks) Dunal". Flora of Pakistan. eFlora.org. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242426281. 
  4. ^ "Withania coagulans (Stocks) Dunal". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?102409. 

External links

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Data related to Withania at Wikispecies