Much branched , perennial subshrub ; up to 20-50 cm tall . Stems ash grey , twisted and knotted at the nodes , white scruffy , becoming glabrescent with age . Leaves in clusters at the nodes , linear to elliptic to terete , fleshy . Inflorescences pedunculate densely crowded cymose head . Flowers pentamerous , bisexual , yellowish green ; sepals ovate , free , with a thick green midrib prolonged into a soft spine-tipped awn , less than 2 mm in fruit ; petals white , shorter than the sepals ; stamens 5 ; filaments dilated and united at the base to form a ring , subperigynous ; anthers dorsifixed ; ovary stipitate , free , globose , unilocular , 2-ovuled . Fruit ovoid-subglobose , indehiscent , 1-seeded . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
No Data
Not Evaluated (NE)
Frequent
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Sphaerocoma aucheri Boiss.
No data
maintenanceAr.Item1
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. *https://www.nzpcn.org.nz *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
