Mirabilis jalapa L.

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Description

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Missouri Botanical Garden external link
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Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org external link
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S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
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Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 3 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.

Herbs up to 1.5 m tall. Roots tuberous. Stem dichotomous, glabrous to minutely pubescent, often swollen at the nodes, reddish, glaucescent and flaccid. Leaves ovate, 5-12 X 2-6 cm, acuminate, puberulous, base slightly oblique. Involucral bracts ovate, united at the base, c. 9 mm long, sepaloid, puberulous and nervose. Flowers subsessile, in clusters of 4-5; pedicel c. 2 mm long. Perianth tube 2.5-3(-3.5) cm long, puberulous outside, limb plicately 5-lobed; lobes emarginate. Stamens 5, exserted; filaments c. 4 cm long, reddish, lower half adnate to the tube, basally connate and surrounding the ovary. Ovary 1.5 mm long, ovoid; ovule solitary, basal, surrounded by a few linear scales. Style reddish; stigma capitate. Anthocarp 9 mm long, ovoid, 5-ribbed, black, tuberculate. Nut subglobose, c. 7 mm long.
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eFloras.org Copyright © Missouri Botanical Garden. Some rights reserved external link
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Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org external link
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eFloras.org external link
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S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
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Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 3 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.

A garden annual with pretty red flowers. Mutants with large yellow or white flowers are known (Y. Nasir 6238, RAW). The faintly fragrant flowers open in the late afternoon. The leaves and roots are said to be medicinal.
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K.K. Shrestha, J.R. Press and D.A. Sutton
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal @ eFloras.org external link
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.

460-1800 m
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org external link
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Flora of China Vol. 5: 432 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.

This species is used medicinally and as an ornamental.
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Description

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Flora of China @ eFloras.org external link
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eFloras.org external link
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Flora of China Vol. 5: 432 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.

Herbs annual, to 1 m tall. Roots tuberous, black or black-brown. Stems erect, much branched, cylindric, glabrous or slightly pubescent, inflated on nodes. Petiole 1-4 cm; leaf blade ovate or ovate-triangular, 3-15 × 2-9 cm, base truncate or cordate, margin entire, apex acuminate. Flowers usually several clustered at apex of branches, fragrant; pedicel 1-2 mm. Invo- lucre campanulate, ca. 1 cm, 5-lobed, lobes triangular-ovate, acuminate, glabrous, persistent. Perianth purple, red, yellow, white, or variegated; tube 2-6 cm; limb 2.5-3 cm in diam., opening in late afternoon, closing next morning. Stamens 5; filaments slender, exserted; anther globose. Fruit black, globose, 5-8 mm in diam., coriaceous, ribbed and plicate. Endosperm white mealy. Fl. Jun-Oct, fr. Aug-Nov.
References
"Mirabilis jalapa L.". Encyclopedia of Life, available from "http://www.eol.org/pages/479784". Accessed 21 Mar 2010.