Erect annual herb ; 10-40 cm high , with ascending branches , and pale slender taproot . Stems erect , simple or corymbosely branched , usually simple at the base , glabrous or sparsely pubescent . Leaves alternate , 7-24 x 1 mm , ascending , sessile , linear-lanceolate , apex acute , margin entire to minutely denticulate , 1-nerved , scabrid , grey-green . Inflorescences in pedunculate dichasial cymes ; pedicel 2-5 mm , filiform . Flowers yellow , small ; calyx 4-5 mm , lanceolate , hyaline at the base , glandular-ciliate , persistent ; sepals with an elongate green acumen from an ovate base , considerably exceeding the capsule ; petals yellow , 3 . 5-4 mm ; stamens 5 ; staminodes 5 , placed in between the stamens . Fruit capsule , ± 2 mm , globose , yellow-brown , splitting into 10 , 1-seeded portions . Seeds ca . 1 mm , pale yellowish brown , elliptic . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Linum abyssinicum Hochst.
Linum liburnicum Scop.
Linum virgatum Salzm. ex Ball
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Not used traditionally.
*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 (2022). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
