Annual herb ; up to 15 cm high . Stems ± erect to decumbent , greyish-green , stout , branching divaricately , adpressed to spreading pubescent . Leaves alternate to subopposite , 10–20 × 1–2 mm , lanceolate to oblanceolate , base cuneate , apex obtuse , margins entire , pubescent with adpressed and spreading hairs . Inflorescences in terminal cymes ; pedicels up to 5 mm in fruit . Flowers blue , funnel-shaped ; calyx 5-lobed to base , accrescent in fruit , lobes ± 4 mm (smaller in flower) , lanceolate-oblong , adpressed hairy with tubercule-based hairs ; corolla blue , funnel-shaped , limb 5-lobed with rounded lobes ; appendages present in throat ; style gynobasic . Fruit nutlets , ovoid-triangular , aculeate , tuberculate . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
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Anchusa spinocarpos Forssk.
Echinospermum spinocarpos (Forssk.) Boiss.
Myosotis spinocarpos (Forssk.) Vahl
Rochelia spinocarpos (Forssk.) Roem. & Schult.
Sclerocaryopsis spinocarpos (Forssk.) Brand
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Not recorded yet.
*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 *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
