Petroana_montana_2-06082024 © OBG
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Petroana_montana_4-06082024 © OBG
Petroana_montana_5-06082024 © OBG
Petroana_montana_6-06082024 © OBG
Petroana_montana-06082024 © OBG
A cushion shaped , woody-based perennial herb ; up to 80 cm high , glabrous or pubescent to extremely viscid-hairy . Stems erect , profusely branched , brittle , glandular , pubescent , often whitish when young . Leaves opposite , lanceolate-obovate , apex acute , base tapering into a short petiole , usually forming a basal rosette , absent from the flowering stems . Inflorescences in terminal branched cymes . Flowers many tiny flowers , forming sprays at the end of leafless stalks ; calyx narrowly obconical , acute ; petals white or pink , free , linear-oblong , longer than the calyx . Fruit capsule , oblong-elliptic , splitting by 4 valves . Seeds c . 0 . 8 x 0 . 9 mm , rough to obtusely tuberculate , with a shallow groove at the back . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
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Not Common
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Gypsophila montana Balf.f.
Gypsophila somalensis Franch.
Saponaria montana (Balf.f.) Barkoudah
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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
