Annual herb ; up to 10 cm high . Stems few , tufted , densely leafy , of bottle-brush-like appearance . Leaves linear , to 20 × 1 mm , tomentose above and ± glabrous below , becoming ± involute . Inflorescences by 1–3 per node crowded in long , leafy racemiform synflorescences . Flowers straw-coloured to reddish-brown ; the outer boat-shaped , enveloping the filiform , pistillate flowers ; the inner persistent , surrounding the tubular , perfect disc flowers . Fruit achenes , less than 1 mm long , glandular . Seeds pappus , present only in the perfect disc flowers , of ± 10 apically plumose , ± 2 mm long bristles . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
No Data
Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Chrysocoma spicata Forssk.
Trichogyne spicata (Forssk.) Sch.Bip.
No data
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Spiked Ifloga, Common Needle-Wort
Not used traditionally.
*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 *https://casabio.org *http://www.efloras.org *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
