Annual herb ; 15 cm high , root up to 180 mm long . Stems prostrate , diffused or procumbent branches , densely grey-green tomentose . Leaves alternate , 5-20 x 3-12 mm , pinnately lobed , margins sinuate ; stipules minute ; petiole 3-8 mm long , densely hairy . Inflorescences in the axils of leaves ; pedicels 3-6 mm long in fruit . Flowers white or pink ; sepals 5 , triangular-ovate , acute , 2 . 5-3 mm ; petals 5 , white , cream or pink , ± 1 mm , obovate ; stamens 10 , c . 2 mm long . Fruit 10-20 mm in diameter , flattened , oricular , dry and woody , spiny above , smooth below , indehiscent , retained as a collar around the base of the new plant ; spines 2-10 mm long . Seeds curved about 2 . 5 x 1 . 5 mm in size , non endospermic , horn like with tapering distal end . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
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Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Figaraea aegyptiaca Viv.
Neurada procumbens var. orbicularis Delile
Neurada procumbens var. pentagona Delile
Neurada procumbens var. stellata Zohary & D.Zohary
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Sand Button
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*https://en.wikipedia.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. *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. *Miller, A.G. & Cope, T.A. (1996). Flora of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra 1: 1-586. Edinburgh university press. ISBN 0748604758. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
