Shrub ; up to 30-50(-65) cm tall , glabrous . Stems ascending , glabrous ; younger branches smooth and white ; older branches becoming brown with longitudinally-fissured bark . Leaves subopposite or alternate , 5–25 x 2–3 mm , sessile , linear- terete , straight or curved , with an apiculate tip , and tufts of short woolly hairs in the axils . Inflorescences 2–5 in the upper axils of leaves , forming loose or dense spikes , subtended by 2 bracts ; bracts succulent , broadly ovate . Flowers bisexual ; perianth segments 5 , with white , scarious margins , developing a wing in fruit ; stamens 5 . . Fruit perianth 4–7 mm (including the wings) , wings subequal . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
No Data
Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Darniella schweinfurthii (Solms-Laub.) Brullo
No data
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Desert Saltwort
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://en.wiktionary.org *http://www.efloras.org *Miller, A.G. & Cope, T.A. (1996). Flora of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra 1: 1-586. Edinburgh university press. ISBN 0748604758.
