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Vitex agnus-castus

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Medicinal Plants of the World

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A strongly aromatic shrub or low tree of the VERBENACEAE family with densely short-puberulent branches. The leaves, 5–9, are digitate and velvety. Leaflets, 5–7, are mostly unequal, the central one largest, the lowermost pair smallest, the 3 largest petiolulate, the 2–4 smallest usually sessile, and narrow-elliptical, the central one 4.5–11.5 cm long and 9–21 mm wide, attenuate or acuminate at both ends, pulverulent or glabrate above. Petioles 1.5–2.5 cm long are densely puberulent and resinous-granular. Flowers are pale purple or violet, in interrupted spikes, in groups of several.

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Ross, I.A. (2001). Vitex agnus-castus. In: Medicinal Plants of the World. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-237-1_24

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