Annual herb ; up to 10 cm high , glandular-pubescent . Stems erect , many , branching from the base , greyish-green . Leaves opposite , mostly basal , few on the flowering stems , linear to linear-subulate , acute tip , almost spiny , usually 7-nerved . Inflorescences in axillary or terminal cymes (in congested dichasial cymes) . Flowers white , tiny ; calyx campanulate ; seplas 5 , unequal , narrowly-ovate , free , 3-5-nerved , glandular ; petals white , ovate- oblong , shorter than the sepals . Fruit capsule , narrowly ovoid , splitting by 3 valves . Seeds finely tuberculate . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Alsine brevis Boiss.
Alsine meyeri Boiss.
Alsine rudbarensis Stapf
Arenaria meyeri (Boiss.) Edgew. & Hook.f.
Minuartia brevis (Boiss.) Parsa
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Not known
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 *Gledhill, D. (2008). The names of Plants, fourth edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-68553-5. *http://www.efloras.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
