Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Division Tracheophyta > Subdivision Spermatophytina > Class Magnoliopsida > Superorder Asteranae > Order Solanales > Family Solanaceae > Genus Withania

Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

WithaniaPauquyaccepted genus name
Manoelia Bowdich synonym

Species group names

Physalis somnifera L. basionym
Physalis somnifera L. homotypic synonym
Manoelia pallida Bowdich synonym
Physalis arborescens Thunb. synonym
Physalis villosa Steud. synonym
Withania sicula Lojac. synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Catalan: bufera; bufera somnífera sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Portuguese: bufeta qu´adorn; erva moira sonífera; erva mora somnifera; erva moura sonífera; erva-moura-sonífera; morella sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Spanish, Castillian: beleño macho; hierba del sueño; hierba mora mayor; orobale; oroval; orval; orvala; orvale; solano acarreador de sueño; tomate del diablo; vejiguilla; veleño de letargos; yerba mora mayor; yerba mora mayor y acarreadora de sueño; yerba mora que hace dormir sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Valencian: orval

Literature

nomenclatural reference

Dunal in Candolle, Prodr. 13(1). 1852.

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Citation

Valdés, B. (2012): Solanaceae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal. Accessed through: Euro+Med PlantBase at http://ww2.bgbm.org/euroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?UUID=AB021FCA-EF39-4E62-A457-A81EE97FC1E5

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Occurrence

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2012-09-12 by Valdés, B. (2012): Solanaceae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.

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