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  • COMMON NAME: Fagonbushes
  • ARABIC: الشكاع
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Fagonia indica Burm.f.
  • SYNONYMS: F.parviflora Boiss.
  • FAMILY: ZYGOPHYLLACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Stony) Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP). Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. http://www.westafricanplants.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=14&id=3120 https://www.floraofqatar.com/fagonia_indica.htm Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. Encyclopedia of medicinal plants of UAE 1&2 from Zayed complex for herbal Research & traditional medicine, AD.
It is used alone or mixed with other herbs to treat stomach pain, stomach disorders and fever. It is also used externally as an ointment to treat itching and sores. Food sources to honey bees ( Honey nectar plants ).

Perennial, shrublet, up to 30 cm high, covered with whitish pruinose or sessile glands or glabrous. Stem basely somewhat woody, branches procumbent or erect, terete, striate, internodes 2-5 cm long. All leaves unifoliate, short-petioled, lanceolate or elliptical, acute or mucronate, 8-16 mm long. Stipular spines spreading, slender, thin, 5-18 mm long, of unequal length. Flowers solitary in the axils, about 10 mm across. Pedicels 4-8 mm long, deflexed in fruit. Calyx persistent. Petals pale pink, spathulate, twice as long as the sepals. Capsule minutely pubescent, 4-5 mm in diameter, with persistent style. Flowering from March-May.  

sandy soil, gravelly soil and limestone.
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