Caudanthera edulis
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| Caudanthera edulis | |
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| Caudanthera edulis flowers | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Apocynaceae |
| Genus: | Caudanthera |
| Species: | C. edulis |
| Binomial name | |
| Caudanthera edulis (Edgew.) Meve & Liede | |
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Caudanthera edulis is a succulent subshrub flowering plant that belongs to the genus Caudanthera in the subfamily Asclepiadoideae of the family Apocynaceae. This species is native to Niger, northeast Tropical Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, through Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan to northwest India and is found in desert and dry shrubland.[1]
Common names include situn[2] in Pakistan, doghabis and howraghu in the Hormozgan province of Iran[3] and pimpa in the Thar Desert of northeast India.[4]
