Perennial herb or subshrub ; up to 25 cm high . Stems erect , quadrangular , intricately branched , rigid , ± glabrous or with adpressed very short eglandular hairs , many orange oil globules present throughout the length of the stems . Leaves very few and distantly placed on the stems , 3-6 x 2-3 mm , opposite , grey-green , ± sessile , oblanceolate , base cuneate , apex obtuse , margins entire or with 2–3 shallow lobes , ± glabrous with short and long eglandular hairs and orange oil globules on both surfaces . Inflorescences (verticils) 1–2- flowered , distantly placed along the stems but usually in the upper part ; bracts ovate , acute ; pedicels 1 . 5-2 mm , elongating and recurved in fruit . Flowers lilac to pale violet ; calyx grey-green , 3-4 mm , campanulate , 2-lipped , densely pubescent with long eglandular spreading hairs and shorter capitate glandular hairs and oil glabules , ciliate on the teeth margins ; upper lip with acuminate spinulose teeth ; corolla lilac to pale violet , 2-lipped , 5-6 mm ;
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Pleudia macilenta (Boiss.) M.Will, N.Schmalz & Class.-Bockh.
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Ghazanfar (2015) wrote that: "The plant [nutlets] have been used in traditional medicine to treat stomach ache, bloating and colic". (Ref. Flora of Oman; vol.3).
*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. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
