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  • COMMON NAME: Cocculus pendulum
  • ARABIC: عنبه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Cocculus pendulus ( J. R & G. Forst. ) Diels
  • SYNONYMS: Epibaterium pendulum J. R. et G.Forst
  • FAMILY: MENISPERMACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Landscape (L)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
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/cocculus_pendulus.htm V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
Leaves and roots used to treat constipation and skin problems.

Climbing shrubs with long slender, puberulent, glaucous branchlets. Stem 5-12 cm in diameter, branches finely-grooved, twining 3-6 meter long. Leaves 1.4-4.5 cm long, 0.5-3 cm broad, subsessile, more or less leathery, oblong-lanceolate, entire, cuneate or rounded at base or trilobed-hastate, apex usually obtuse, more or less glabrous. Flowers small, greenish-white. Male flowers in axillary panicles 0.5-1.5 cm long, on short peduncles in the leaf-axil. Female flowers solitary or in pairs 0.5-1.2 cm long. Fruiting-carpels, drupe, reddish when fresh but turning black when dried. 0.3-0.7 cm long, 0.3-0.5 cm broad. 

Flowering from February to May.
Mountains and wadis, climbing over trees or prostrate, spreading over the ground several meters.
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