Annual or rarely short-lived perennial herb ; up to 5-10 cm high . Stems prostrate to procumbent , slender , glabrous . Leaves opposite , linear-lanceolate , sometimes slightly succulent , appear to be in whorls of 4 . Inflorescences in congested to lax , axillary cymes , much branched . Flowers small , white , numerous ; sepals keeled at the back , hooded , margins scarious , apex acute and mucronate ; petals white , smaller than the calyx ; stamens 3 . Fruit capsule , ovoid , 3-valved , slightly shorter than the sepals . Seeds c . 0 . 5 mm long , usually minutely warty . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Holosteum tetraphyllum (L.) Thunb.
Mollugo tetraphylla L.
Polycarpaea tetraphylla (L.) E.H.L.Krause
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Allseed
Four-leaved Allseed
Fourleaf Allseed
Fourleaf Manyseed
Four-leaved All-seed
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. *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
