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Blepharis_ciliaris © OBG
Woody perennial shrublet ; up to 30 cm high . Stems erect or spreading , stiff , branching from the base . Leaves opposite , 10–60 × 3–15 mm , grey-green , deciduous , oblong to narrow ovate to elliptic-ovate , apex spine-tipped , margins with up to 10 teeth per side , puberulous ; bracts 2–5 pairs , sterile , 3-5 cm , pubescent , margins with 3-5 pairs of spines ; apex with a long spine . Inflorescences 2–30 in short spikes ; peduncle 5–30 mm . Flowers white with purple veins to purple-blue ; calyx of 4 unequal lobes ; dorsal 13–18 mm , 5–7-veined from base , broadly elliptic-ovate , apex (1–)3-toothed ; ventral 8–12 mm , 2-toothed ; lateral 6–8 mm , ovate ; corolla white with purple veins to purple-blue , 15–20 cm long , 1-lipped , flat with 3 obtuse lobes , the central largest , puberulous beneath ; corolla united basally to form a short tube 4–6 mm ; stamens 4 , attached at the mouth of the corolla tube , exserted . Fruit capsule 7–8 mm long , ovoid , flattened , hidden among spiny
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Ruellia ciliaris L.
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Eyelash Plant
In Omani studies: Pickering & Patzelt (2008) wrote that: "Reported to have a number of medicinal uses, including stopping bleeding". (Ref. Field guide to the Wild plants of Oman).
*Ghazanfar, S. (2015). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.3: Loganiaceae – Asteraceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789082352511 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. *Miller, A., Morris, M. (1988). Plants of Dhofar, the Southern Region of Oman: Traditional, Economic, and Medicinal Uses. Published by Office of the Adviser for Conservation of the Environment, Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman; ISBN 10: 0715708082 ISSN 13: 9780715708088. *Pickering, H. Patzelt, A. (2008). Field Guide to the Wild Plants of Oman. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. ISBN 9781842461778. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
