Small perennial shrub or undershrub ; up to 60 cm tall , grey pubescent , weakly spiny . Stems branched , grey-green , ribbed , sparsely pilose and glandular . Leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets 10-25 x 4-12 mm , obovate , irregularly sinuate , acute at the apex , truncate at the base , grey-green , pubescent and glandular . Inflorescences in 1-3 fascicled many-flowered racemes . Flowers white ; calyx 2-lipped , lobes unequal , strongly nerved ; corolla with standard petal , white or purple white ; stamens all united . Fruit pod , ellipsoid , ± as long as the calyx , not beaked , pubescent . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
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Not Threatened (NT) - Globoal Assessment
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Lotodes plicatum (Delile) Kuntze
Munbya plicata (Delile) Pomel
Psoralea plicata Delile
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maintenanceAr.Item1 maintenanceAr.Item3
Not known
Ghazanfar (2007) wrote that: "The species recorded to be grazed by all livestock, although I have seen that it is not readily eaten and is left alone by camels and goats". (Ref. Flora of Oman; vol.2).
*POWO (2022). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org *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 *https://nameberry.com *https://www.etymonline.com *https://davisla.wordpress.com *Patzelt, A. & al. (2020). Studies in the flora of Arabia: XXXIV. Sixty new records from the Sultanate of Oman Edinburgh Journal of Botany 77: 413-437.