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  • COMMON NAME: Plocama
  • ARABIC: أبو كف
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Pterogaillonia calycoptera ( Decne ) Lincz.
  • SYNONYMS: Spermacoce calycoptera Decne.
  • FAMILY: RUBIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Dubai
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Gulley Slope (Rocky)
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Very rare in the UAE (Hatta).
https://eol.org/pages/1093792 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.inaturalist.org/observations/41321508

An erect slender, woody perennial, green-stemmed herb, up to 40 cm high, with small, white, 4-lobed flowers, 3-4 mm wide, clasped by two persistent, whitish bracts. 

Flowering from February to May.
Rocky hillsides.
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