Perennial herb ; up to 40 cm high , with with a thin rootstock . Stems ascending to decumbent , branched , ± woody at base , grey-green , covered with retrorse hairs throughout . Leaves alternate , 7–25 × 3–9 mm , greyish-green , obovate to oblong-ovate , base cuneate and tapering into the petiole , apex obtuse , margins entire , densely covered with retrorse hairs ; petiole to 8 mm long . Inflorescences terminal , often paired , up to 12 cm long , flowers in scorpioid cymes ; bracts absent . Flowers white , tubular , subsessile ; calyx 5-lobed , persistent ; lobes free to base , 1 . 5–2 mm , one lobe larger than the others , lanceolate , densely hairy ; corolla white , tubular , 5-lobed ; tube ± 2 . 5mm , hairy on the outside ; lobes small , 0 . 6–1 mm , rounded , overlapping ; stamens attached below the middle of corolla tube ; stigma sessile , conical . Fruit nutlets , 4 , 1 . 7–2 mm , ovoid , flattened , retrorsely white hairy . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Heliotropium ovalifolium Forssk.
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Grey-leaf Heliotrope
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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://swbiodiversity.org *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
