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Fagonia indica[edit]
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Herbacious plant belongs to family Zygophyllaceae. leaves are modified according to xerophytic habitate.
Scientific classification[edit]
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Zygophyllales
Family: Zygophyllaceae
Genus: Fagonia
Species: indica
synonym[edit]
Fagonia mysorensis Roth.
Fagonia parviflora Boiss.
Fagonia persica DC.
taxonomic characters[edit]
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[edit]
Iran, Garcin (G Herb. Burm.).
Distribution[edit]
Pakistan west wards to subtropical and north
Reference[edit]
Flora of pakistan,[1]