Deciduous , woody shrub or small tree ; up to 2 m tall or more . Stems with alternate spine-tipped branchlets ; bark grey to reddish-brown , peeling . Leaves alternate on young growth , fasciculate on the older branches , in tufts , sessile , 5-22 x 3-5 cm , obovate , rounded apex , long cuneate base , entire margin , glabrous to sparsely pubescent ; petiole to 5 mm . Inflorescences cymes reduced to a subsessile solitary cyathium , or clustered in terminal 2–5-branched umbels . Flowers cyathia with funnel- to cup-shaped involucres ; glands 5 , spreading , saucer- or funnel-shaped , yellowish green ; male flowers numerous , bracteoles laciniate ; female flowers with subsessile ovary , densely puberulous . Fruit capsule , 3-4(-6) mm in diameter , subglobose , subsessile or shortly pedicellate , obtusely 3-lobed , pubescent or glabrous , erect . Seeds 2–2 . 5 mm in diameter , subglobose , glabrous , reddish-brown , faintly speckled . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
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Least Concern (LC) - Global Assessment
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Lyciopsis cuneata (Vahl) Schweinf.
Tirucalia cuneata (Vahl) P.V.Heath
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maintenanceAr.Item1
Not known
In Omani studies: Ghazanfar (2007) wrote that: "Apparently introduced as a hedge plant along the E African coast". (Ref. Flora of Oman; vol.2).
*Ghazanfar, S. (2007). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.2: Crassulaceae – Apiaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 36). ISBN 9789072619747 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *http://www.bihrmann.com *Miller, A., Morris, M. (1988). Plants of Dhofar, the Southern Region of Oman: Traditional, Economic, and Medicinal Uses. Published by Office of the Adviser for Conservation of the Environment, Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman; ISBN 10: 0715708082 ISSN 13: 9780715708088. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
