Monsonia heliotropioides (Cav.) Boiss.

This species is native to Sahara, Arabia to India. (Ref. POWO; 2023). There are 2 species of Monsonia found in Oman. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).

علم تشكل النبات


Small , erect perennial herb ; up to 20 cm high , greyish-green . Stems stout and woody below . Leaves opposite , long-petiolate , broadly ovate to cordate , 1-2 x as long as wide , 10-34 x 9-30 mm , apex obtuse to acute , often mucronate , base cordate or truncate , margin serrate to crenate , often sinuate to lobed , red tinged at the margin , veins often densely pilose ; petiole and undersurface of leaf villous but not silvery canescent . Infloescences 8-12 in long pedunculate axillary umbels ; peduncles and pedicels with the same indumentum as stems , often red-tinged , mostly geniculate under the fruit . Flowers mauve to pink ; sepals ovate to obovate , 3-4 x 2-2 . 5 mm ; petals ± 1 . 5 x 1-2 mm , mauve to pink . Fruit mericarps , 6 . 5-9 cm ; beak 6-8 . 5 cm long , brown , plumose . Seeds obovoid , glabrous . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .

وقت الإزهار


No Data

الوضع البيئي الحالي


Not Evaluated (NE)

الوفرة


Common

التوزيع الجغرافي والبيئي


الوصف غير متاح حاليًا

Distribution Map

المرادفات


Erodium heliotropioides (Cav.) Willd.
Geranium heliotropioides Cav.

الإكثار


No data

العناية بالنبات


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الأسماء الشائعة


Not known

الأسماء المحلية


shajarat al ghul (Northern Oman)
qairnout (Harsusi)

الاستخدامات


Not recorded yet

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 *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. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

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