Annual herb ; up to 40 cm high . Stems erect , leafy . Leaves up to 11 × 3 cm , spathulate to elliptic , deeply sinuate-dentate to pinnatifid , with bristly hairs , the lower leaves attenuate into a petiole up to 2–3 cm long . Inflorescences soiltary at the end of the branches . Flowers with marginal flowers filiform with longish lobes , whitish to purplish , sterile ; disk flowers purplish , tubular , bisexual ; rarely all flowers white . Fruit achenes , 4–5 mm long , brown , with 1 . 2–1 . 5 mm long , stiff hairs ; hilum basal or almost so . Seeds pappus , ± 4 mm long , of several acute , denticulate , purplish scales . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
No Data
Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Amberboa sinaica DC.
Volutarella leucantha Ball
Volutaria leucantha (Coss. ex Batt.) Maire
No data
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Sinai Volute
African Volute
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://ucjeps.berkeley.edu *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
