Woody-based perennial herb or low shrub ; up 30 cm high . Stems erect to ascending , slender , many , arising from the base , branched , pubescent . Leaves alternate 10-35 x 5-15 cn , obovate , apex rounded , retuse or mucronulate , base cuneate or attenuate , margin entire , ± sessile , at first densely covered with short crisped hairs becoming glabrous . Inflorescences in terminal and axillary racemes 2-5 cm long ; pedicels 5-6 mm ; bract and bracteoles ovate , 1-1 . 5 x 0 . 75-1 mm . Flowers yellow with bright pink tips ; sepals 5: the inner 2 large and petaloid , yellow with pink or greenish veins , broadly ovate , 9-10 x 8-9 mm , tip rounded ; outer sepals green , ovate to orbicular , 3-4 . 5 x 2-4 mm ; petals 3 , yellow with bright pink tips: 2 lateral petals ovate , c . 6 x 3 mm , fused to staminal tube ; median petal 'keel-like' with a pink fimbriate terminal appendage , c . 6 mm long , containing the staminal tube and style ; stamens
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Regional Endemic (RE) - Least Concern (LC) - National Assessment
Frequent
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Polygala bracteolata Forssk.
Polygala ellenbeckii Gürke ex Chodat
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In Omani studies: Miller & Morris (1988) wrote that: "This small plant grows in the monsoon affected areas of Dhofar, but is more commonly to be found in the rather drier mountainous areas, such as the steep rocky wooded slopes at the back of the high, wet plateaux [J: gye], or at the back of the plateaux. One of the plants names refers to this - J: herum ezerah - means "plant of the steep wooded slopes". It is commonly associated in such habitats with the very important fodder plant called locally J: herum axali (species of Ecbolium), and livestock browsing on these two herbs in the drier mountain slopes produce milk with a distinctive smell and flavour, such as that herders can tell from the milk alone that the animals have been grazing these 'zerh' or 'gye' areas. However, this plant is also included in a group of plants
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*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 *https://www.yosemitehikes.com *https://plants.jstor.org *Miller, A., Morris, M. (1988). Plants of Dhofar, the Southern Region of Oman: Traditional, Economic, and Medicinal Uses. Published by Office of the Adviser for Conservation of the Environment, Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman; ISBN 10: 0715708082 ISSN 13: 9780715708088. *Pickering, H. Patzelt, A. (2008). Field Guide to the Wild Plants of Oman. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. ISBN 9781842461778. *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
