Botanical name: Hyoscyamus insanus    Family: Solanaceae (Potato family)
Synonyms: Hyoscyamus angulatus

Purple Henbane is a perennial herb up to 70 cm tall, branched. Flowers are funnel-shaped, white to pale yellow, purplish suffused within; petals blunt. Anthers are somewhat protruding, 3.5-4 mm long, oblong; filaments velvet-hairy. Style protruding above stamens, tip recurved. Sepal-cup is 1.7-1.9 cm long, up to 2.8 cm in fruit, funnel-shaped, nervose, glandular-hairy, shallowly 5-lobed; sepals 2-3 mm long, blunt-cuspidate. Flowers are often one-sided. Branches are round, glandular-woolly. Leaves are 4.5-9 x 3-8.2 cm, ovate to rhombic-ovate, wavy-sinuate or toothed, flat, heart-shaped or wedge-shaped. Leaf-stalks are 1-2 cm long, glandular-hairy. Bract are 5-6 mm long, up to 8 mm in fruit, lanceshaped. The capsular fruit is 7-10 mm long, elliptic-oblong, 2-celled. Purple Henbane is found in Arabian Peninsula, S. Iran, Himalayas to Nepal, at altitudes of 1200 m. Flowering: February-April.
Medicinal uses: The smoke of the plant was traditionally inhaled for treating asthma.

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