Woody based , erect annual herb ; up to 30 cm high , all parts minutely erect-puberulent , apparently sometimes flowering in its first year . Stems scabrid , ascending to erect , branching at the base , spreading , forming small cushion-shaped plants . Leaves opposite , simple , linear to lanceolate , rarely ovate or obovate , white-hrsute , base slightly rounded , apex acute , soon glabrescent , sometimes leaf fascicles present at the nodes . Inflorescences in terminal cymes ; the flower clusters appearing as white hairy balls at maturity . Flowers bracts elongating to 15 mm in fruit ; sepals oblong , papillose , rigid , midrib ending in recurved spine ; petals white , linear , shorter than the sepals by 1/3 ; anthers exserted at anthesis ; style as long as anthers . Fruit capsule , narrowly flattened , obovoid , dark brown , indehiscent . Seeds c . 1 . 2 mm long , pale brown . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
No Data
Not Evaluated (NE)
Frequent
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Cometes abyssinica subsp. suffruticosa R.Wagner & Vierh.
Cometes apiculata Decne.
No data
maintenanceAr.Item1
Ethiopian Cometes
Not used traditionally.
*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://en.wiktionary.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
