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  • COMMON NAME: Hedysarum spartium
  • ARABIC: ورد الجبل
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Taverniera spartea ( Burm.f. ) DC
  • SYNONYMS: T. gonoclada Jaub. & spach.
  • FAMILY: FABACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Rare in the UAE (Jabal Al-Dhanna).
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://www.floraofqatar.com/taverniera_spartea.htm

Undershrub, 50-30 cm high, nearly leafless. Stems rigid, white, canescent, much branched, enfing in sharp tips. Leaves generally unifoliolate or absent, but sometimes 3-foliolate, obovate or orbicular, entire, obtuse, pubescent on both sides, 5-10 mm in diameter. Flowers 1-3, in an axillary pedunculate raceme. Pedicel 1-2 mm long. Calyx 3-4 mm long, campanulate, densely pubescent, Corolla pink or blue, with dark veins. Standard 7-9 mm long, longer than keel. pod compressed, 2-segmented, with bristles. 

Flowering from February to April.
Mountains and wadis.
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