Perennial cushion-forming shrub ; up to 30-50 cm high . Stems intricately branched , rigid , ending in forked spiny brown tips , densely sericeous , grey-green . Leaves 5–15 × 2–5 mm , sessile , grey-green , hidden among the stems and branches , oblanlceolate , often plicate , base attenuate , apex acute to obtuse , adpressed pubescent , deciduous . Inflorescences axillary or terminal , solitary or in small clusters ; pedicels ± 6 mm . Flowers white or with pink tinge , funnel-shaped ; sepals unequal , outer sepals 8–9 mm , basally convex , ovate-lanceolate , with a long acuminate tip , white sericeous ; inner sepals 7–8 mm , lanceolate , acuminate , membranous . corolla pink , funnel-shaped , 17–20 mm long , 1 . 5–2 cm in diameter , glabrous but with a sericeous med-petaline area , tube glabrous ; stamens unequal ; filaments with sessile glands on the flattened part . Fruit capsule , ± 6 × 5 mm , ovoid , hairy at the apex , 4–valved . Seeds 3 mm long , dark brown , densely puberulous . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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Rare & Threatened (RT) - Near Threatened (NT) - National Assessment
Not Common
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The dead wood of this woody shrub was collected and used as firewood. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
Ghazanfar, S. (2015). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.3: Loganiaceae – Asteraceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789082352511 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *http://www.efloras.org *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. *https://en.wiktionary.org *Patzelt, A., Harrison, T., Knees, S.G. & Hartley, L.A. (2014). Studies in the flora of Arabia: XXXI. New records from the Sultanate of Oman Edinburgh Journal of Botany 71: 161-180. *Patzelt, A. (2015). Photographic Field Guide to the Plants of the Western Hajar Mountains, Sultanate of Oman: with a complete checklist of vascular plant species. Sultan Qaboos University – Academic Publication and Outreach Department. P.O Pox (17) Postal Code (123), Muscat, Al khoudh, Sultanate of Oman. *Patzelt, A. (2015). Oman Plant Red Data Book. Published by Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman. Oman Botanic Garden Publication No. 1. ISBN 978-99969-50-10-0. *POWO
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