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  • COMMON NAME: Plumed scabious
  • ARABIC: لصيق
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Pterocephalus brevis
  • SYNONYMS: P. involucratus
  • FAMILY: DIPSACACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Gulley
  • TYPES: Annual Biennial
  • REMARKS: Rare in the UAE. (Masafi)
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://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:319593-1#synonyms https://flora-of-cyprus.eu/cdm_dataportal/taxon/4632aa34-4e76-4352-89fa-8265fd75bbc5

Annual herb, 15-45 cm high, with dense, glandular and long spreading eglandular hairs, viscid. Stems forked, much branched. Leaves oblong in outline, 2-5 cm long, 1-2 cm broad; lower leaves undivided, dentate, other leaves pinnatilobed into oblong-linear lobes. Heades radiant, 1-1.5 cm across, many-flowerd, pinkish-purple, peduncles 3-10 cm. Involucral bracts lanceolate, acute as long as or longer than corolla, larger bracts sometimes with 1-2 pairs of lobules at base. Achense hairy, oblong, compressed enclosed in the involucel ending in a short membranous crown with 8 minute teeth. Plumose bristles of calyx 12, somewhat longer than involucel. 

Flowering from February to May.
Fallow fields and hillsides.
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