Umarbotanist

Fagonia indica

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Herbacious plant belongs to family Zygophyllaceae. leaves are modified according to xerophytic habitate.

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Order: Zygophyllales

Family: Zygophyllaceae

Genus: Fagonia

Species: indica

synonym

Fagonia mysorensis Roth.

Fagonia parviflora Boiss.

Fagonia persica DC.

taxonomic characters

Pruinose glandular or glabrous shrublet. Branches erect, internodes terete, striate, up to 4 cm long. Leaves unifoliolate, shortly petioled or subsessile, leaflets narrowly ovate-lanceolate, 8-16 mm long, c. 3-4 mm broad, mucronate, distinctly articulate at the base; stipular spines suberect, equal to shorter than leaves. Cap¬sule 4 mm long and broad, pedicel reflexed, equal to or slightly longer than the fruit.

Type

Iran, Garcin (G Herb. Burm.). 

Distribution

Pakistan west wards to subtropical and north 

Reference

Flora of pakistan,[1]