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  • COMMON NAME: Sand Herbage
  • ARABIC: ديدمان
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Gisekia pharnaceoides L.
  • SYNONYMS: Gisekia congesta Moq.
  • FAMILY: MOLLUGINACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • 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://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:323294-2 https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/33136 Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE.
Moderately salt tolerant.

Bluish-green, glabrous annual herb, 20 cm high. Stem diffuse, procumbent, much branching, slender. Leaves 1-4 cm long, linear-lanceolate to spathulate, entire, tapering at base. Many flowers in cymes or subsessile in axils of bracts shorter than leaves. Sepals 5-lobed, ovate, small, persistent, margin white. Stamens 5. carpels 5, free. Fruit achenes ovoid, purplish, star-shaped. Seed one, shiny red. 

Flowering from January to April.
Sandy soil, slope of a sand dunes and along the coast lines.
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