Alhagi graecorum Boiss.

This species is distributed in the eastern Mediterranean region, to N Africa and Arabian Peninsula, eastwards to Iran. (Ref. Flora of Oman; vol.2). There is only one species of Alhagi in Oman. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).

علم تشكل النبات


Woody base , spiny , erect , perennial subshrub ; up to 2 m tall , deep-rooted . Stems erect to ascending , lateral branches becoming spinescent , glabrous to pubescent . Leaves 10-20 x 3-8 mm , obovate to oblong-elliptic , apex apiculate , obtuse or emarginated , base rounded , margins entire , glabrous or pubescent , petiolate . Inflorescences in lax axillary racemes . Flowers red or purplish-red ; sepals 2-2 . 5 mm , teeth minute , glabrous ; petals 6-8 mm ; stamens 9+1 . Fruit pod , linear , constricted irregularly in between the seeds , glabrous , 1-9-seeded . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .

وقت الإزهار


No Data

الوضع البيئي الحالي


Not Threatened (NT) - Globoal Assessment

الوفرة


Not Common

التوزيع الجغرافي والبيئي


الوصف غير متاح حاليًا

Distribution Map

المرادفات


Alhagi karduchorum Boiss. & Hausskn.
Alhagi mannifera var. assyriacum (Nábelek) Ponert
Alhagi maurorum subsp. graecorum (Boiss.) Awmack & Lock

الإكثار


No data

العناية بالنبات


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الأسماء الشائعة


Mannatree
Manna tree
Persian mannaplant
Camelthorn
Camel Thorn

الأسماء المحلية


agul (Northern Oman)
aqul (Arabic)

الاستخدامات


Ghazanfar (2007) wrote that: "The whole plant has been used in traditional medicine for treating cataracts, jaundice, migraine and painful joints". (Ref. Flora of Oman; vol.2).

المراجع


*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 *POWO (2022). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

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