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Withania Begoniifolia
''Withania'' is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae, with 23 species that are native to parts of North Africa, western Asia, south Asia, southern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Canary Islands. Two of the species, ''W. somnifera'' (ashwagandha) and ''W. coagulans'' (ashutosh booti), are economically significant, and are cultivated in several regions for their medicinal uses. Etymology ''Withania'' is thought to have been named in honour of Henry Witham, a British geologist and writer on fossil botany beginning in 1830. Selected species * ''Withania adpressa'' Cors. * '' Withania adunensis'' Vierh. * ''Withania begoniifolia'' (Roxb.) Hunz. & Barboza * ''Withania chevalieri'' A.E.Goncalves * ''Withania coagulans'' (Stocks) Dunal — Ashutosh booti, Indian rennet, ''panirband'', vegetable rennet * ''Withania frutescens'' (L.) Pauquy * ''Withania japonica'' (Franch. & Sav.) Hunz. * ''Withania qaraitica'' A.G.Mill. & Biagi * ''Withania reichenbachii'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Withania Somnifera
''Withania somnifera'', known commonly as ashwagandha or winter cherry, is an evergreen shrub in the Solanaceae or nightshade family that grows in India, the Middle East, and parts of Africa. Several other species in the genus ''Withania'' are morphologically similar. Although used in herbalism and sold as a dietary supplement, there is insufficient scientific evidence that it is safe or effective for treating any health condition or disease. Description This species is a short, tender shrub growing tall. Tomentose branches extend radially from a central stem. Leaves are dull green, elliptic, usually up to long. The flowers are small, green and bell-shaped. The ripe fruit is orange-red. Etymology The Latin species name means "sleep-inducing". The name "ashwagandha" is a combination of the Sanskrit words , meaning horse, and , meaning smell, reflecting that the root has a strong horse-like odor. Cultivation ''Withania somnifera'' is cultivated in many of the drier regions o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Withania Coagulans
''Withania coagulans'' ( Sanskrit: ''Rishyagandha'', Tamil: ''Panneer ilai chedi'', Hindi: ''Paneer phool'', Pashto: ''شاپیانگا/مخازور'') is a plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, native to Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Indian subcontinent. Within the genus ''Withania'', ''W. somnifera'' (Ashwagandha) and ''W. coagulans'' (Paneer booti/Ashutosh booti) are economically significant, and are cultivated in several regions for their use in Ayurveda. It is claimed to help control diabetes. The berries contain a rennet-like protease that can be used to clot milk for cheese production. The plant is prone to leaf spot disease caused by ''Alternaria alternata ''Alternaria alternata'' is a fungus which has been recorded causing leaf spot and other diseases on over 380 host species of plant. It is an opportunistic pathogen on numerous hosts causing leaf spots, rots and blights on many plant parts. It ...''. References coagulans Plants used in Ayurveda Plan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Withania
''Withania'' is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae, with 23 species that are native to parts of North Africa, western Asia, south Asia, southern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Canary Islands. Two of the species, ''W. somnifera'' (ashwagandha) and ''W. coagulans'' (ashutosh booti), are economically significant, and are cultivated in several regions for their medicinal uses. Etymology ''Withania'' is thought to have been named in honour of Henry Witham, a British geologist and writer on fossil botany beginning in 1830. Selected species * ''Withania adpressa'' Cors. * '' Withania adunensis'' Vierh. * ''Withania begoniifolia'' (Roxb.) Hunz. & Barboza * ''Withania chevalieri'' A.E.Goncalves * ''Withania coagulans'' (Stocks) Dunal — Ashutosh booti, Indian rennet, ''panirband'', vegetable rennet * ''Withania frutescens'' (L.) Pauquy * ''Withania japonica'' (Franch. & Sav.) Hunz. * ''Withania qaraitica'' A.G.Mill. & Biagi * ''Withania reichenbachii'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Félix Dunal
Michel Félix Dunal (24 October 1789 in Montpellier – 29 July 1856 in Montpellier) was a French botanist. He was a professor of botany in Montpellier, France. He held the chair of natural history at the University of Montpellier from 1816 until his death in 1856. The Solanaceous plant genus ''Dunalia'' is named after him. He is especially known for his work with the genus ''Solanum'', and published an important work on the genus; ''Solanorum generumque affinium Synopsis seu Solanorum Historiae, editionis secundae summarium ad characteres differentiales redactum, seriem naturalem, habitationes stationesque specierum breviter indicans'', Montpellier, 1816. For the work ''Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis'' by Augustin de Candolle and his son, Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle, he contributed to Volume I of 1824 "Cistineae" (modern Cistaceae), to Volume VII, No. 2 of 1839 "Vaccinieae", and to Volume XIII No. 1 of 1852 "Solanaceae". Its publication in 1852 was the last t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Withania Sphaerocarpa
''Withania'' is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae, with 23 species that are native to parts of North Africa, western Asia, south Asia, southern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Canary Islands. Two of the species, ''W. somnifera'' (ashwagandha) and ''W. coagulans'' (ashutosh booti), are economically significant, and are cultivated in several regions for their medicinal uses. Etymology ''Withania'' is thought to have been named in honour of Henry Witham, a British geologist and writer on fossil botany beginning in 1830. Selected species * ''Withania adpressa'' Cors. * '' Withania adunensis'' Vierh. * ''Withania begoniifolia'' (Roxb.) Hunz. & Barboza * ''Withania chevalieri'' A.E.Goncalves * ''Withania coagulans'' (Stocks) Dunal — Ashutosh booti, Indian rennet, ''panirband'', vegetable rennet * ''Withania frutescens'' (L.) Pauquy * ''Withania japonica'' (Franch. & Sav.) Hunz. * ''Withania qaraitica'' A.G.Mill. & Biagi * ''Withania reichenbachii'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg August Schweinfurth
Georg August Schweinfurth (29 December 1836 – 19 September 1925) was a Baltic German botanist and ethnologist who explored East Central Africa. Life and explorations He was born at Riga, Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire. He was educated at the universities of Heidelberg, Munich and Berlin (1856–1862), where he particularly devoted himself to botany and palaeontology. Commissioned to arrange the collections brought from Sudan by Adalbert von Barnim and Robert Hartmann, his attention was directed to that region; and in 1863 he travelled round the shores of the Red Sea, repeatedly traversed the district between that sea and the Nile, passed on to Khartoum, and returned to Europe in 1866. In 1866 botanist A.Braun published '' Schweinfurthia'' which is a genus of flowering plants from Africa and Asia, belonging to the family Plantaginaceae and named in Georg August Schweinfurth's honour. His researches attracted so much attention that in 1868 the Berlin-based Alexan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Withania Riebeckii
''Withania riebeckii'' is a species of plant in the family Solanaceae. It is endemic to Yemen. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes. Shrubland may either occur naturally or be the result of human activity. It m .... References riebeckii Endemic flora of Socotra Least concern plants Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Isaac Bayley Balfour Taxa named by Georg August Schweinfurth {{Solanales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Withania Reichenbachii
''Withania'' is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae, with 23 species that are native to parts of North Africa, western Asia, south Asia, southern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Canary Islands. Two of the species, ''W. somnifera'' (ashwagandha) and ''W. coagulans'' (ashutosh booti), are economically significant, and are cultivated in several regions for their medicinal uses. Etymology ''Withania'' is thought to have been named in honour of Henry Witham, a British geologist and writer on fossil botany beginning in 1830. Selected species * ''Withania adpressa'' Cors. * '' Withania adunensis'' Vierh. * ''Withania begoniifolia'' (Roxb.) Hunz. & Barboza * ''Withania chevalieri'' A.E.Goncalves * ''Withania coagulans'' (Stocks) Dunal — Ashutosh booti, Indian rennet, ''panirband'', vegetable rennet * ''Withania frutescens'' (L.) Pauquy * ''Withania japonica'' (Franch. & Sav.) Hunz. * ''Withania qaraitica'' A.G.Mill. & Biagi * ''Withania reichenbachii'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Withania Qaraitica
''Withania qaraitica'' is a shrubby and perennial herb up to one metre tall with bright orange-red seeds patterned with honeycomb-like markings, pale yellowish brown. It has only been found in Dhofar The Dhofar Governorate ( ar, مُحَافَظَة ظُفَار, Muḥāfaẓat Ẓufār) is the largest of the 11 Governorates in the Sultanate of Oman in terms of area. It lies in Southern Oman, on the eastern border with Yemen's Al Mahrah Gov ..., but may occur in wet woodlands over the border in south Yemen. It is closely related to two species, ''Withania adunenis'' and '' W. riebeckii''. ''Withania qaraitica'' occurs commonly in the wet woodlands however can be found around settlements where they have frequently been transplanted. References * {{Taxonbar, from=Q17401051 Withania Flora of Yemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Withania Japonica
''Withania'' is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae, with 23 species that are native to parts of North Africa, western Asia, south Asia, southern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Canary Islands. Two of the species, ''W. somnifera'' (ashwagandha) and ''W. coagulans'' (ashutosh booti), are economically significant, and are cultivated in several regions for their medicinal uses. Etymology ''Withania'' is thought to have been named in honour of Henry Witham, a British geologist and writer on fossil botany beginning in 1830. Selected species * ''Withania adpressa'' Cors. * '' Withania adunensis'' Vierh. * ''Withania begoniifolia'' (Roxb.) Hunz. & Barboza * ''Withania chevalieri'' A.E.Goncalves * ''Withania coagulans'' (Stocks) Dunal — Ashutosh booti, Indian rennet, ''panirband'', vegetable rennet * ''Withania frutescens'' (L.) Pauquy * ''Withania japonica'' (Franch. & Sav.) Hunz. * ''Withania qaraitica'' A.G.Mill. & Biagi * ''Withania reichenbachii'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Withania Frutescens
''Withania'' is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae, with 23 species that are native to parts of North Africa, western Asia, south Asia, southern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Canary Islands. Two of the species, ''W. somnifera'' (ashwagandha) and ''W. coagulans'' (ashutosh booti), are economically significant, and are cultivated in several regions for their medicinal uses. Etymology ''Withania'' is thought to have been named in honour of Henry Witham, a British geologist and writer on fossil botany beginning in 1830. Selected species * ''Withania adpressa'' Cors. * '' Withania adunensis'' Vierh. * ''Withania begoniifolia'' (Roxb.) Hunz. & Barboza * ''Withania chevalieri'' A.E.Goncalves * ''Withania coagulans'' (Stocks) Dunal — Ashutosh booti, Indian rennet, ''panirband'', vegetable rennet * ''Withania frutescens'' (L.) Pauquy * ''Withania japonica'' (Franch. & Sav.) Hunz. * ''Withania qaraitica'' A.G.Mill. & Biagi * ''Withania reichenbachii'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
