Annual or perennial herb ; up to 40 cm tall . Stems prostrate , pilose to ± pubescent . Leaves opposite , sessile , linear-oblong to narrowly obovate , mucronate , sparsely pubescent . Inflorescences in terminal and axillary clusters . Flowers with antrorse hooked hairs near the base ; sepals 5 , equal , ± oblong , with broad scarious margins ; petals absent ; stamens 5 . Fruit oblong-ovoid , densely papillose in the upper parts , indehiscent , 1-seeded . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Illecebrum arabicum L.
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Silver Nailroot
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. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. *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
