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  • COMMON NAME: tropical spiderwort
  • ARABIC: رديف
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Commicarpus stenocarpus ( Chiov. ) Cufod.
  • SYNONYMS: Boerhavia stenocarpa Choive.
  • FAMILY: NYCTAGINACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Wadi Slope
  • TYPES: Perennial
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://efloraofindia.com/2018/04/07/commicarpus/

Perennial herbs with shrubby base 20-50 cm high. Stems grayish-white, covered with soft hairs, glandular, much branched. Leaves more or less fleshy, thick broadly ovate to suborbicular or obcordate 1-4 cm long and 1-2.5 cm. broad, obtuse, pubescent. Petiole, slender, glandular 1-2 cm long. Flowers arranged in whorls, 2-5 per node. Pedicel short. perianth funnel-shaped 0.4-0.6 cm long, pink to purple. Stamens 3, exerted; anther 2-called. Style long, slender; stigma capitate. Anthocarp small, yellowish-brown, subconical or club-shaped, deeply ribbed and papillose. 

Flowering from March to June.
Wadis and plantations.