Trichodesma cinereum Mosti & Selvi

Woody base perennial herb ; up to 40 cm high , forming dense clumps . Stems simple or branched , grey/green , covered with dense white-woolly hairs interspersed with few bristly white tuberculate-based long ± adpressed hairs ; bark peeling and flaking at the lower parts of stems . Leaves opposite , 25–40 × 6–18 mm , elliptic to ovate-elliptic , base cuneate and tapering into the petiole , apex acute , margins entire , densely white-woolly interspersed with few bristly white tubercle-based long ± adpressed hairs ; petiole up to 25 mm ; upper leaves sessile . Inflorescences in lax cymes , ± nodding in fruit ; pedicels slender , variable in length , developing to 15 mm ; bracts 5 – 6 mm , linear-lanceolate , white villous . Flowers pale violet to mauve , yellowish in centre , face downwards ; calyx 10–12 mm , enlarging to ± 15 mm in fruit , 5-lobed to base , lobes ovate-lanceolate , acute , densely white villous ; corolla pale violet to mauve , yellowish in centre , tubular ; tube yellowish , 5–6 mm , shorter ... than calyx , 5-lobed above with spreading lobes , glabrous outside , hairy about the middle ; lobes ovate , long acuminate , tips twisting ; stamens 5 , attached at middle of corolla tube ; anthers ± 5 mm long , densely velvety , with long apical appendages exserted from the corolla and twisted around each other , glabrous ; style gynobasic , slender ; stigma capitate . Fruit nutlets , 4 , 4–5 mm , ovoid , margins inflexed , white dentate glochidate , inner surfaces glochidiate with few tubercles . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .

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Endemic (EN) - Vulnerable (VU B2b(ii , iii)) - Global Assessment

Not Common

Trichodesma dhofaricum Ghaz.
Trichodesma laccophilum R.R. Mill ined.