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  • COMMON NAME: Spider Flower
  • ARABIC: بربران، حريظه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Cleome dolichostyla Jafri
  • FAMILY: CLEOMACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Annual
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://guatemala.inaturalist.org/photos/34647154

Annual sometimes biennial herb, with strong rather sickly odour, up to 4 cm high, fleshy, green, coverd with dense sticky glandular hairs of stout stalk. Stem branched from the base. Leaves simple, hairy, suborbicular to ovate or cordate, apex rounded, often with 5-veined, 2-4 cm long, petiole slender, 2-3.5 cm long. Flowers about 8 mm long, few to many in lax racemes, yellow with lilac veins. Pedicels 5-8 mm, elongated in fruit. Stamens 4, longer than petals. Fruit 18-28 mm long, coverd with short stalked glands, linear-cylindrical, with persistent, 5-10 mm long. 

Flowering from April to August.
Mountain slopes and wadis.
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