Annual or perennial herb ; up to 25 cm high , with a woody rootstock . Stems mostly procumbent or ascending , grey-white , white-tomentose . Leaves opposite , 32–60 × 8–28 mm , narrow obovate to oblanceolat , apex obtuse or emarginate , base tapering into the petiole to 30 mm long , margins irregularly crenulate , grey-green beneath . Inflorescences in spiny axillary spikes ; bracts overlapping , each supporting a sessile or subsessile flower 5–10 mm , bracts broadly ovate to ovate with a spiny acuminate tip ; branched spines representing sterile inflorescences . Flowers blue to purple or white ; calyx deeply divided into 2 lobes , both enlarging in fruit ; upper lobe 6–9 mm , 3-veined ; lower 5–6 mm , 2-veined ; corolla blue to purple or white 6–8 mm ; tube short , limb 3–5 mm across . Fruit capsule , 6–8 mm , ovoid , glabrous . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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*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 *https://casabio.org *https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz *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. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
