Arnebia_hispidissma_2-06082024 © OBG
Arnebia_hispidissma_3-06082024 © OBG
Arnebia_hispidissma_4-06082024 © OBG
Arnebia_hispidissma_5-06082024 © OBG
Arnebia_hispidissma_6-06082024 © OBG
Arnebia_hispidissma_7-06082024 © OBG
Arnebia_hispidissma-06082024 © OBG
Erect annual or rarely perennial herb ; up to 5-25 cm high , with a woody base . Stems erect to ascending , branched , covered with hispid , long ± adpressed and short hairs . Leaves alternate , 10–50 × 2–7 mm , simple , greyish , without stipules , lanceolate or linear-lanceolate , base tapering or shortly petiolate , apex acute , margins entire , white hispid . Inflorescences solitary , in short cymes , subsessile ; bracts linear-lanceolate . Flowers bright yellow , bisexual , regular , slightly curved backwards ; calyx 5–8 mm , increasing in length ; lobes 5 , divided almost to base , linear ; corolla yellow , 10–15 mm , 5-lobed , hairy outside , glabrous or hairy inside ; tube cylindrical ; lobes a third of the tube , broadly rounded ; stamens 5 . Fruit nutlets , 4 , glossy . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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Dioclea hispidissima (Sieber ex Lehm.) Spreng.
Echiochilon hispidissimum (Sieber ex Lehm.) Tausch
Lithospermum hispidissimum Sieber ex Lehm.
Strobila hispidissima (Sieber ex Lehm.) G.Don
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Arabian Primrose
Prophet Flower
Spiny Bugloss
In Omani studies: Ghazanfar (2015) wrote that: "The roots give a blue dye". (Ref. Flora of Oman; vol.3).
*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 *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. *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
