Rydingia_persica_2 © OBG
Rydingia_persica_3 © OBG
Rydingia_persica_4 © OBG
Rydingia_persica_5 © OBG
Rydingia_persica_6 © OBG
Rydingia_persica_7 © OBG
Rydingia_persica © OBG
Spiny shrub ; up to 1 . 5 m tall . Stems branched , densely eglandular-pubescent . Leaves 10-12 x 10 mm , suborbicular to broadly obovate , base cuneate , apex obtuse , margins crenate to dentate with small spinules , densely pubescent with eglandular hairs and sessile glands ; petiole ± 10 mm ; spines up to 20 mm present in the axils of leaves . Inflorescences (Verticillasters) few-flowered , distantly placed ; bracts spiny , spreading . Flowers white ; calyx 10-ribbed , densely pilose , tube ± 8 mm , lower lip broadly ovate , spreading , irregularly lobed and toothed , scarious , straw-coloured ; upper lip small ; corolla white , ± 20 mm , 2-lipped ; tube about the same lenth as the calyx tube ; upper lip 10-11 mm , densely villous . Fruit nutlets , obovoid , with oil globules , often only one maturing ( ? ) . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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Rare & Threatened (RT) - Endangered (EN D1) - National Assessment
Very Rare
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Ballota persica (Burm.f.) Benth.
Moluccella persica Burm.f.
Otostegia kotschyi Boiss.
Otostegia microphylla Boiss.
Otostegia persica (Burm.f.) Boiss.
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Not known
Not used traditionally.
*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 * 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. *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). 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 (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
