Barleria almughsaylensis Mosti, Raffaelli & Tardelli

Spiny shrub ; up to 40-50 cm tall , branched from the base . Stems decumbent , grey-green , sparsely to densely pubescent . Leaves opposite , , 4-17 x 3-11 mm , grey-green , ovate to suborbicular , apex mucronate , base cuneate , margins entire , white-pubescent ; petiole ± 4 mm ; axillary spines 15–25 mm , with 2–3 smaller lateral spines 3–4 mm long . Inflorescences s in dense scorpioid cymes (in the leaf-axils) ; bracts leaf–like ; bracteoles with a more or less reduced blade , up to 35 x 8 mm . Flowers white tinged with blue ; calyx lobes 4 , pubescent in the abaxial side and sparse pilose or subglabrous in adaxial side ; upper lobe (of the 2 outer calyx lobes) up to ca . 27 x 14 mm long including an apical spine (ca . 8-9 mm long) and up to 9 pairs of lateral spines up to 4 mm ; lower lobe ovate-acute up to 19 x 13 mm without an apical spine but with 8-10 ... pairs of very short lateral spines 0 . 5-1 mm ; inner calyx lobes 2 , linear-acute up to 9 x 1 . 5 mm ; corolla white , turning blue on drying , 38-52 mm long , with a cylindrical tube 35-49 mm long and 5 obovate-elliptical lobes up to 12 x 7 mm , almost perpendicular to tube . Fruit capsule , up to 14 x 5 x 2 mm , ellipsoidal with a conical apical beak ca . 1 mm long ; pale to medium brown with 3 darker stripes , glabrous or with sparse short hairs , 4-seeded . Seeds ca . 4 x 4 mm , trapezoidal-suborbicular , flattened , brown with a thick horn-coloured margin , sometimes showing sparse protuberances ; seeds surface covered with dense , intricate hairs , white-beige in colour and hygroscopic . (Ref . Mosti et al . ; 2011) .

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Endemic (EN) - Global Assessment

Very Rare

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