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  • COMMON NAME: Taily Weed
  • ARABIC: القرضي
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Ochradenus baccatus Del.
  • SYNONYMS: Ochradenus rostratus
  • FAMILY: RESEDACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah
  • CATEGORIES: Fodder (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
https://www.floraofqatar.com/ochradenus_baccatus.htm https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/278415 https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:715387-1
sources for many animal species in desert regions.

Broom-like shrub, sometimes straggling or flat on the ground, usually glabrous, up to 3 m tall. Leaves linear, 10–50 x 1–2(–4) mm. Flowers yellowish or greenish in mostly long racemes. Sepals 1–1.5 mm long. Petals absent or very minute and caducous. Disc single. Stamens 12–18. Ovary cylindric, with 3 apical blunt teeth. Capsules berry-like, globose, 4–6 mm in diam., closed at the apex. Seeds minutely papillose, brown to black.

Sandy soil.