Cushion-forming , spinescent subshrub ; up to 30 cm high , with white latex . Stems intricately and divaricately branched ; flowering branches divaricately branched and zig-zag-forming . Leaves only found on young branches , to 8 × 2 cm , spathulate , denticulate and sinuate-dentate to pinnatipartite . Inflorescences of divaricately branched , zig-zag-forming lignified axes ; peduncles 0 . 6–2 cm long , subulate , remaining as spines after shedding the capitula . Flowers bright yellow . Fruit achenes , 3–4 mm long , smooth to wrinkled , glabrous , dry brown with a single seed . Seeds pappus , 6–7 mm long , of downy hairs and bristles . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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Zollikoferia bornmuelleri Hausskn. ex Bornm.
Known as a good treatment to stop the bleeding from fresh wounds. The knowly growing leaves are edible. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
*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://reptile-database.reptarium.cz *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
