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  • COMMON NAME: Valantia
  • ARABIC: قفشت العجوز
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Callipeltis cucullaris (L.)
  • SYNONYMS: Valantia cucullaris L.
  • FAMILY: RUBIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Sharjah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/745228-1 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. Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.

Annual, 5-20 cm high, of erect or ascending, simple to much branched stems, mostly from base, branches quadrangular, nearly glabrous. Leaves 1-12 mm long 2-4 mm wide, oblong-spathulate, obtuse, subsessile. Cymes nearly sessile, 5-9 flowerd, central flower sessile, naked, the lateral bracteate, shortly pedicellate. Bracts 3-5 mm long in fruit, folded together around the nut, their keel convex and bracts thus of crescent-shape. Mericarps single, 1.5-2 mm long, cylindrical, somewhat curved, hispidulous. 

Flowering in Spring.
Mountain slopes or in stony wadis.
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