Shrub ; up to 1 m tall . Stems erect , much-branched , spiny , leafless , glaucous , older branches becoming spiny at tips . Leaves up to 30×4 mm , few on the stems , falling soon , oblong , margins entire or irregularly toothed ; basal leaves short-lived , lyrate-pinnatifid . Inflorescences ascending , in few-flowered racemes . Flowers purple to pink-blue with darker veins ; sepals saccate ; petals 15–17 mm , purple to pink-blue with darker veins . Fruit silicula , 5–10 mm in diameter , globose with a spiny beak , smooth or verrucose , woody when mature ; beak 3-5 mm . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
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Bunias spinosa L.
Myagrum spinosum (L.) Lam.
Zilla myagroides var. macrocarpa DC.
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Spiny Zilla
Shabram
A paste of crushed green plant is placed over painful teeth to soothe the pain. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
*Ghazanfar, S. (2003). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.1: Piperaceae – Primulaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 90-72619-55-2 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://www.oed.com *https://casabio.org *Miller, A.G. & Cope, T.A. (1996). Flora of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra 1: 1-586. Edinburgh university press. ISBN 0748604758. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
