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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Withania

Hierarchical position of the Genus Withania

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Lamiidae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 178. 25 Mar 1993.       SuperOrdo  Solananae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Solanales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 20. 1829. common name: Polemoniales       Subordo  Solanineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 180. Mai 1898.       Familia  Solanaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 124. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Potatos, tomato, peppers       Genus  Withania Pauquy common name: withania

Named members of the Genus Withania

1	Species  somnifera (L.) Dunal common name: withania, ashwagandha  (Hindi), Indian ginseng

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.