Kleinia_odora_2-06082024 © OBG
Kleinia_odora_3-06082024 © OBG
Kleinia_odora_4-06082024 © OBG
Kleinia_odora_5-06082024 © OBG
Kleinia_odora_6-06082024 © OBG
Kleinia_odora_7-06082024 © OBG
Kleinia_odora-06082024 © OBG
Succulent perennial ; up 1 m high . Stems branched from the base , slender , 1–1 . 5 cm in diameter , cylindric , erect , jointed ; nodes not raised and with 3 deeper green orpurplish-green radiating lines continuing to the next lower node . Leaves usually leafless , on young shoots only , up to 3 . 5 × 1 . 5 cm , somewhat fleshy , oblong or linear-lanceolate to spathulate , glabrous . Inflorescences 5–7 in corymbiform synflorescences at the end of the stems . Flowers 6–12 , white , tubular , perfect . Fruit achenes , 2–3 mm long , ± cylindric , villose . Seeds pappus , 13–14 mm long , of numerous barbellate , white bristles . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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Not Common
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Cacalia odora Forssk.
Senecio anteuphorbium var. odorus (Forssk.) Rowley
Senecio odorus (Forssk.) Sch.Bip.
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Fragrant Kleinia
In Omani studies: Miller & Morris (1988) wrote that: "Medicinally, the importance of this plant lay in the effect its juice had on painful, paralysed or stiff limbs. Quantities of the greener material and the growing tips were gathered, then were roughly broken up, crushed, and put into the container of water and left to macerate overnight, preferably with a piece of iron in or across the container as well. The strained liquid was then used as a liniment to treat a variety of painful conditions, especially of the lower limbs and the back, such a sciatica, lumbago, rheumatism, arthritis, and swollen or or infected joints, as well as to try and stimulate and reactivate paralysed limbs [J: en' 'argil 'egdol, DA: ksahh], such as those resulting from stroke or polio and so on. The affected areas were bathed in the liquid and massaged daily for a period of up
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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 *https://www.inaturalist.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. *Patzelt, A. (2015). Oman Plant Red Data Book. Published by Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman. Oman Botanic Garden Publication No. 1. ISBN 978-99969-50-10-0. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
