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

*Withania*	Pauquy	accepted 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.

Genbank

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