Upright or ± straggling or trailing shrub ; up to 1(-2) m tall , with white latex . Stems branched , leafless , greenish to brownish . Leaves opposite , small , 10−15 × 1 mm , soon falling , linear-lanceolate , apex acute , base cuneate , leathery , glabrous ; bracteate leaves ± 1 mm , naviculate , persistent . Inflorescences in axillary or terminal clusters , 2−3(−5)-flowered or flowers solitary ; pedicel 2−3 mm . Flowers pale yellow with a darker stripe down the centre ; calyx 5-lobed to half its length ; lobes 0 . 5−1 mm , ovate , obtuse , glabrous ; corolla 5-lobed almost to base ; lobes reflexed , oblong , 5−7 × 2−4 mm , purplish-red with a yellow margin (Dhofar) or entirely yellow (N Oman) , and an elliptical whitish glandular spot present at the base of lobe ; corona 3-segmented , central green , filiform , 3−4 mm long , lateral fleshy , ovoid , reddish , fused to the inner base of corolla lobe ; stamens 5 with short filaments ; anthers bearded ; pollen in tetrads . Fruit follicles , 4−6 cm , paired or
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Leptadenia visciformis Vatke
Socotora visciformis (Vatke) Bullock
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Geesoriyaad (Somali)
In Omani studies: Miller & Morris (1988) wrote that: "P. visciformis, (J: eyrṭīt, éršīt), which grows mainly in the high dry plateaux of Dhofar, was formerly important as a fodder plant during the dry season, since it holds its green colour well, and could be mixed with other less appealing-looking feedstuffs to tempt livestock to eat them. In earlier days, when the majority of herders and their families and livestock made the annual westward trek from the Hasik and Juffa areas in the east across the high Samhan plateau to the lush pastures of monsoon Dhofar at the end of the monsoon season, they used to gather armfuls of this bush as they went along and feed it to the baggage camels and livestock at the night halts, occasionally mixed with a handful of dried sardines. This would keep them going until they reached the richness of the rains-grazing around
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