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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Solanaceae
Withania

Citation: Pauquy, Belladone 14 (1825).

Derivation: After H. T. M. Witham, 1779-1844, an English palaeobotanist.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Shrubs with pubescence of dendritic hairs; leaves alternate or opposite, simple, entire.

Flowers solitary or in axillary clusters; calyx campanulate, 5-lobed; corolla campanulate, 5-lobed; stamens 5, equal, inserted near the base of the corolla; anthers erect, included; style slender, erect; stigma capitate; fruit a globose berry enclosed in the inflated calyx; seeds subreniform. Symon (1981) J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 3:161.

Distribution:  About 10 species found in western Asia and North Africa. Although frequently placed near Physalis because of the inflated calyx there is little evidence that they are in any way related.

Biology: No text

Author: Prepared by D. E. Symon


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