Invasive
Prostrate perennial herb ; up to 20 cm high , forming mats along the ground with a small woody rootstock . Stems prostrate to ascending , rooting at the lower nodes , striate , villous . Leaves opposite or subopposite , 15–40 x 5–15 mm , broadly ovate to rhomboid-ovate , margin entire , purplish . Inflorescences sessile , borne in the leaf axils ; bracts 4–5 mm , membranous , pilose , with an excurrent midrib . Flowers inconspicuous ; perianth of 5 unequal segments , the outer 2 longer (± 5 mm) than the inner (± 3 mm) , mucronate with a spiny mucro ; staminodes shorter than the stamens . Fruit capsule , c . 2 mm in diameter , globose , rounded or retuse above . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
No Data
Not Evaluated (NE)
Frequent
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Achyranthes leiantha (Seub.) Standl.
Alternanthera achyrantha var. leiantha Seub.
Alternanthera leiantha (Seub.) Alain
Alternanthera pungens var. leiantha (Seub.) Suess.
Telanthera pungens (Kunth) Moq.
No data
maintenanceAr.Item1
Khakiweed
Creeping Chaffweed
Paper Thorn
Not recorded yet.
*Ghazanfar, S. (2003). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.1: Piperaceae – Primulaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 90-72619-55-2 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://davisla.wordpress.com *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. *Miller, A.G. & Cope, T.A. (1996). Flora of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra 1: 1-586. Edinburgh university press. ISBN 0748604758. *Patzelt, A., Harrison, T., Knees, S.G. & Hartley, L.A. (2014). Studies in the flora of Arabia: XXXI. New records from the Sultanate of Oman Edinburgh Journal of Botany 71: 161-180. *Pickering, H. Patzelt, A. (2008). Field Guide to the Wild Plants of Oman. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. ISBN 9781842461778. *Patzelt, A. (2015). Photographic Field Guide to
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