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  • COMMON NAME: False amaranth
  • ARABIC: دفره
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Digera muricata (L.) Mart.
  • SYNONYMS: Achyranthes muricata L., A. alternifolia L., D. alternifolia , D.arvensis.
  • FAMILY: AMARANTHACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Very rare in the UAE. (Al-Ain).
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/digera_muricata.htm

Annual herb nearly glabrous up to 50 cm high. Stems many branched, more or less tetragonal, striate, decumbent. Leaves 2-6 cm long and 1-3 cm wide, ovate to lanceolate, acute or obtuse at apex. Petioles 2-6 cm long, slender, slightly ciliate. Spike 3-12 cm long, sleender, erect, axillary. Bracts subulate, persistent. Flowers 0.3-0.5 long, white or pinkish, subsessile. perianth segments 0.3-0.4 cm long, ovate to lanceolate, the outer acute, 3-nerved, the inner smaller obtuse, 1-nerved. Style slender 0.2-4.5 cm long, stigma 2-fid, recurved. Fruit subglobose, about 3 mm long. 

Flowering from January to April.
A weed in gardens or waste places.
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