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|accepted_name=Punica
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 472. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Pomegranate
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Lythraceae;Punica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Lythraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Punica]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek phoenikeos, reddish purple, alluding to classical name punicum malum, apple of Carthage
|volume=Volume 10
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or small trees, terrestrial, 20–60 dm, glabrous throughout. <b>Stems</b> erect, much-branched, branches often terminating as indurate thorns. <b>Leaves</b> opposite to subopposite; subsessile to shortly petiolate; blade oblong to lanceolate-elliptic, base rounded to attenuate, apex often developing foliar nectary. <b>Inflorescences</b> determinate, usually terminal, sometimes axillary, in 1–5 clusters, racemes. <b>Flowers</b> sessile, actinomorphic, monostylous; floral tube semi-epigynous to epigynous, usually red, sometimes yellow, campanulate or urceolate-campanulate, thick, leathery, slightly constricted medially; epicalyx segments absent; sepals 5–8, erect to recurved, 1/4–1/3 floral tube length; petals deciduous, 5–8, usually bright red, white, or variegated, sometimes yellow, showy, crumpled; nectariferous tissue present at ovary-floral tube junction; stamens many, covering inner surface of floral tube distal to ovary; ovary semi- or fully inferior, carpels in 2(or 3) superposed, twisted layers [in 1 regular whorl]; placenta elongate; style slender; stigma capitate. <b>Fruits</b> berries, crowned by persistent sepals and stamens, walls thick and leathery, indehiscent, splitting irregularly. <b>Seeds</b> ca. 100–1400, reddish purple, oblong-pyramidal, outer layer fleshy, inner layer hardened; cotyledons rolled.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;Asia (India;Iran;Middle East);Africa;introduced also in warmer regions of the New World and Old World.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Punica protopunica Balfour f. is known only from the Indian Ocean island of Socotra in Yemen.</p>
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name=Punica
|author=Shirley A. Graham
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Lythraceae
|distribution=Europe;Asia (India;Iran;Middle East);Africa;introduced also in warmer regions of the New World and Old World.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
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|genus=Punica
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