Erect branched annual or biennial herb ; up to 40 cm tall , harshly scabrid . Stems erect , branched from the base , rigid , greyish-green , covered with white tubercule-based long stiff spreading hairs , becoming glabrescent . Leaves opposite , 20–35 × 9–9 mm , dull greyish green , ovate-lanceolate to ovate-oblong to linear , base rounded to cuneate , apex acute or obtuse , margins entire , spreading tubercule-based hairy ; petiole up to 20 mm ; upper leaves sessile . Inflorescences in lax few-flowered cymes , nodding ; pedicels variable in length , developing later . Flowers whitish or bluish ; calyx 6–9 mm , up to 10 mm in fruit , 5-lobed to base , lobes ovate-lanceolate , base truncate to subcordate , acute , hairy mainly on margins and nerves ; corolla whitish or bluish , sometimes with purple blotches in centre , tubular , tube as long as calyx , 5-lobed above with spreading lobes ; lobes ovate , acuminate ; stamens 5 , attached at the throat of the corolla tube , anthers ± 10 mm long , densely hairy , with long
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Frequent
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Boraginella africana (L.) Kuntze
Borago africana L.
Borraginoides africana (L.) Hiern
Pollichia africana (L.) Medik.
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African Barbbell
To treat dislocated bone. A paste from crushed plant is applied around the affected site. (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 *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. *Patzelt, A. & al. (2020). Studies in the flora of Arabia: XXXIV. Sixty new records from the Sultanate of Oman Edinburgh Journal of Botany 77: 413-437. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
