Artemisia sieberi Besser

This species is native to E Mediterranean, Middle East, Arabian Peninsula, W Pakistan. (Ref. POWO; 2023). There is only one species of Artemisia occurs in Oman. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).

علم تشكل النبات


Strongly aromatic shrublet ; up to 40 cm tall , greyish-tomentose to glabrescent . Stems with many , rigid , erect to spreading branches . Leaves basal and lower leaves petiolate , rounded in outline , bipinnatisect , 5-16 x 5-12 mm , with lanceolate , obtuse segments to ± 4 mm long ; upper and middle leaves subsessile to sessile , basally auriculate , in the upper floral region palmatisect or linear , entire , subtending floral branches . Inflorescences numerous densely sessile in paniculiform synflorescences . Flowers 3-4(-5) , perfect , tubular , 5-toothed , yellowish to purple . Fruit achenes , ± 1 mm long , obovate . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .

وقت الإزهار


No Data

الوضع البيئي الحالي


Not Evaluated (NE)

الوفرة


Frequent

التوزيع الجغرافي والبيئي


الوصف غير متاح حاليًا

Distribution Map

المرادفات


Artemisia glomerata Sieber ex Spreng.
Artemisia inculta Delile
Seriphidium sieberi (Besser) K.Bremer & Humphries ex Y.R.Ling

الإكثار


No data

العناية بالنبات


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الأسماء الشائعة


White Wormwood

الأسماء المحلية


ghatta, al marairi (Musandam)
shieh (Arabic)

الاستخدامات


Drank as a tea and to get rid of gases. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden). In Omani studies: Ghazanfar (2015) wrote that: "Its leaves have been used in traditional medicine to make an infusion taken as an anthelmintic". (Ref. Flora of Oman, vol. 3).

المراجع


*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 *http://navigate.botanicgardens.org *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

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