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A new genus of Solanaceae, Archihyoscyamus A.M. Lu, from Kurdistan (Western Asia) is described. The morphological characters of the flowers indicate that the genus is primitive in the tribe Hyoscyameae.
New genus, Archihyoscyamus, Solanaceae, Western Asia