Woody base perennial herb or subshrub ; up to 60 (-100) cm tall . Stems erect to ascending to prostrate , simple or branched , strigose with adpressed and spreading , long and short bulbous-based hairs . Leaves alternate , 5–60 × 2–16 mm , linear to linear-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate , base tapering into a short petiole , 1–3 mm , apex acute , crenulate-undulate at margins , sometimes margins revolute , young leaves flat , mature fleshy sometimes semi-terete , both surfaces covered with long and short bulbous-based hairs , denser on the nerves and margins , dark green to blackish-green . Inflorescences terminal or axillary ; flowers sessile in dense simple or branched scorpioid cymes , 1 . 5–3 cm , often straightening and somewhat elongating and becoming lax in fruit ; bracts absent . Flowers small , white or rarely yellow (possibly by age or drying yellowish) ; calyx 5-lobed , persistent ; lobes free almost to base , 2–2 . 5 mm , linear to lanceolate , hairy ; corolla tubular , 5-lobed ; tube 2 . 5–3 . 5 mm , hairy outside ; lobes ± 1 mm , linear-oblong ,
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obtuse , overlapping ; stamens attached to the corolla tube , slightly above corolla base ; stigma ring-shaped with a conical head . Fruit nutlets , 4 , separating into 2 halves , glabrous , each half provided with a broad wing . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Heliophytum pterocarpum DC.
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Not known
Not recorded yet. However, probably treated the same way as Heliotropium bacciferum. (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 *http://www.stuartxchange.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. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org