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  • COMMON NAME: Ochradenus
  • ARABIC: علندره، جيش، ييشع
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Ochradenus arabicus Chaudhary, Hillc. & A.G.Mill.
  • FAMILY: RESEDACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Landscape (L) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Gulley Slope (Rocky)
  • 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. https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/415765 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21817881 Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Honey nectar plants. Unripe fruits eaten as treatment for digestive problems.

Spiny shrub, up to 1 meter, densly and intricately-branched, branches smooth, yellowish-green, spreading, spinescent. Leaves 1-4 cm long, 2-3 mm wide, linear, acute, deciduous. Flowers tiny, yellowish-green in dense terminal racemes, 3-8 cm long. Bract small, oblong. Sepals 5-6 lobes, surrounding the filaments and ovary. Stamens 10-16. Ovary glabrous; sessile, 3-carpellate; stigma 3. Fruit ovoid, green, capsule, pea-like nearly closed t the top. Seeds many, about 1-5 mm long, reniform, dark-brown, shiny. Flowering from January-May.  

Gravelly soil, foothills and rocky mountain slopes.
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