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  • COMMON NAME: Small Thyme
  • ARABIC: لبخ
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Arenaria leptoclados (Rchb.) Guss.
  • SYNONYMS: Arenaria leptoclados subsp. minutiflora
  • FAMILY: CARYOPHYLLACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Very rare in the UAE. (Al-Ain Sarouj and Al-Kuwaitat).
http://www.floraofalabama.org/Plant.aspx?id=5732 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://flora.org.il/plants/ARELEP/

Annual herb, 10-20 cm high, puberulent. Stems rigid, slender, ascending, branched dichotomously from the base. Leaves 4-9 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, ovate, acuminate, subsessile, ciliate. Flowers 4-8 mm in diameter, numerous in dichasial cymes. Bracts leaf-like, but smaller. Pedicels 5-7 mm lonf filiform. Sepals hairy, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved, longer than petals, 4-6 mm long. Petals obovate, white. Capsule cylindrical to oblong, scarcely swollen at base. Seeds 0.3-0.6 mm in diameter, black, finely tuberculate. 

Flowering from February to April.
Farms, orchards and road sides.
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