Annual or perennial herb ; up to 20(-30) cm high , with white latex . Stems ascending to prostrate , branched from the base , thinly to densely pubescent with white patent hairs . Leaves opposite , 1−3(−5) x 1−3(−4) cm , ovate to circular , cuneate , apex acute to sometimes mucronulate , margins entire , undulate , somewhat fleshy , grey-green , pubescent ; petiole 5−20 mm , long , pubescent . Inflorescences in few-flowered axillary clusters , more or less throughout the length of stems ; pedicels ± 1 mm . Flowers small , c . 4 mm across , white or pale pink ; calyx 5-lobed to base ; lobes 3−4 mm , subulate , pubescent ; corolla white to pink , or medially greenish , pink on margins , campanulate , 5-lobed ; lobes 3−5 mm , oblong-ovate , obtuse ; corona white to cream , with 5 segments , basally attached to the corolla and alternating with the corolla lobes ; segments 1 . 5−2 . 4 mm , ovate , tip entire or bifid ; staminal column short ; pollinia solitary in each anther loculus , pendulous . Fruit follicle , 3−6 cm , ellipsoid , tip
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Frequent
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Cynanchum varians (Stocks) Liede & Khanum
Glossonema arabicum Deflers
Glossonema edule N.E.Br.
Glossonema haussknechtii Bornm.
Glossonema varians (Stocks) Benth. ex Hook.f.
Mastostigma varians Stocks
Odontanthera varians (Stocks) Mabb.
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Jarawa
Dodha
In Omani studies: Miller & Morris (1988) wrote that: "This common plant of the plains and plateaux comes into leaf rapidly at the onest of the annual rains or during seasonal rain storms, producing quantities of leaf and later the characteristic fruit with their covering of soft spines. The fruit are very delicious, especially when young and tender, when they taste like young peapods. They used to be gathered avidly as a delicacy, and were taken to give to others as a treat to break the monotony of a largely milk diet. They were also collected to be sold, as happened on the Kuria Muria islands, where the islanders used to collect the fruit of this plant, which grows freely on the islands, and sell it to the people on the mainland or to passing boats. The greenery produced by the plant is eaten by all livestock, but is regarded
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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 *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
