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  • COMMON NAME: Taverniera
  • ARABIC: ورد الجبل
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Taverniera cuneifolia ( Roth ) Arn.
  • SYNONYMS: Taverniera glabra Boiss.
  • FAMILY: FABACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Annual Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP). Foodplant for the moths Chilena laristana and Drasteria yerburyi.
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. https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/f/fabaceae/taverniera/taverniera-cuneifolia Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.

Annual, shrubby plant, 50-100 cm high. Stems and branches nearly pubescent. Leaves simple, obovate to oblanceolate, entire, mucronate, 5-20 mm long and broad. Stipules connate, 2-3 mm long. Flowers in a lax raceme, on 1-3 cm stalks, with showy pinl and white peatals, with dark veins. Pedicel 1-2.5 mm long. Bracts 2-3 mm long. Calyx 4-5 mm long. Standard 8-12 mm long, wings smaller than keel. pod compressed, with 1-3 segmented, each 1-seeded, echinate and hairy, compressed.  

Flowering from January to April.
Gravelly soil and mountains.
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