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  • COMMON NAME: Fagonbushes
  • ARABIC: شكاع، شيكه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Fagonia bruguieri DC.
  • SYNONYMS: Fagonia echinella, Fagonia olivieri.
  • FAMILY: ZYGOPHYLLACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Gulley Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: 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.floraofqatar.com/fagonia_bruguieri.htm Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.

A dwarf shrub, much branched, sometimes very compact, up to 25 cm high, with woody base, pale green, glandular hairy or glabrous. Stems procumbent, sulcate, angled, divaricately branched. Leaves 3-foliolate in lower stems, central leaflet larger, 4-10 mm long, ovate-oblong, acute, upper leaves unifoliate, subsessile. Stipular spines 4-15 mm long, slightly curved. Flowers solitary, 10-15 mm across, on pedicels up to 5 mm long. Sepals 2-3 mm long, lanceolate, acute, aristate, persistent. Petals spathulate, 2-3 times as long as sepals, pink to purple or rarely white. Capsule up to 4 mm long, pyramidal, 5 angled, with a persistent style, pubescent. 

Flowering from February to April and October to December.
Sandy gravely soil, stony hillsides and limestone.
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