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  • COMMON NAME: Lindenbergia
  • ARABIC: سوجات
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Lindenbergia arabica ( Moore ) Hartl.
  • SYNONYMS: Omania arabica
  • FAMILY: OROBANCHACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Wadi Slope Gulley
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Rare in the UAE. Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
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/79551015 https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60452214-2 Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.

Perennial, leafy, branched, woody-based herb, 20-50 cm high, the whole plant is very glandular and oily to touch. Leaves small, ovate to deltoid, acute, rounded at base, dentate; floral leaves sessile to subsessile, shorter than calyx. Flowers in spike-like racemes. Calyx 4-6 mm long. Corolla violet and orange, 2-3 times as long as calyx, bearded at throat. Capsule glandular-hairy, longer than calyx. 

Flowering from February to April.
Between rocks in wadi beds and hillsides.
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