Datura stramonium var. canescens Wall.

, Fl. Ind. (Carey & Wallich ed.) 239 (1824). BHL
IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60461108-2
Species Name
Datura stramonium L., Sp. Pl. [Linnaeus] 1: 179 (1753).
Publication
Flora Indica; or Descriptions of Indian Plants, by the Late William Roxburgh. Edited by William Carey, D.D., to Which are Added Descriptions of Plants More Recently Discovered by Nathaniel Wallich. Serampore, West Bengal, India
Collation
239
Date of Publication
post Mar-1824
Family as entered in IPNI
Solanaceae

Type Information

Distribution Of Types
India (Indian Subcontinent, Asia-Tropical)
Nepal (Indian Subcontinent, Asia-Tropical)
Type Remarks
A native of all the mountainous parts of the north of Hindoosthan. I have found it on all the parts of Nipal which I have visited, both mountains and valleys, affecting precisely similar situations to those occupied by the plant in Europe, and blossoming all the year round.

Remarks

Some works attribute the varietal name to Roxburgh (error)