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A perennial herb ; up to 1 m high , with an ovoid corm covered with brown fibrous tunics . Stems erect to ascending , slender , weak . Leaves alternate , dark green , 4(-5) , lance-shaped , long with entire margins , glabrous . Inflorescences in simple 6-10 flowers in a one-sided spike . Flowers pink to pale purple , long , funnel shaped ; perianth segments with the upper median longer , the lower 3 , elliptic ; stamens 3 , inserted in throat of perianth ; ovary 3-locular ; style exserted ; stigma 3-lobed . Fruit capsule , obovoid , between two bracts . Seeds round , brown , globose , without wings . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 4) .
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Gladiolus segetum Ker Gawl.
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Italian gladiolus
Field gladiolus
Common sword-lily
Cornfield gladiolus
Used as food and fodder in Musandam. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
*Ghazanfar, S. (2018). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.4: Hydrocharitaceae – Orchidaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 56). ISBN 9789492663153 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. *Patzelt, A. (2015). Photographic Field Guide to the Plants of the Western Hajar Mountains, Sultanate of Oman: with a complete checklist of vascular plant species. Sultan Qaboos University – Academic Publication and Outreach Department. P.O Pox (17) Postal Code (123), Muscat, Al khoudh, Sultanate of Oman. *Patzelt, A. (2015). Oman Plant Red Data Book. Published by Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman. Oman Botanic Garden Publication No. 1. ISBN 978-99969-50-10-0. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
