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  • COMMON NAME: Silver Nailroot
  • ARABIC: رجل الحمام، عرفج، عرفول الحمام، شدق الجمل
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Paronychia arabica (L.) DC.
  • SYNONYMS: Illecebrum arabicum L.
  • FAMILY: CARYOPHYLLACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Umm-Al-Quwain , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Common in the northern east of the UAE. 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/paronychia_arabica.htm V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.
Entire plant used as an aphrodisiac.

Annual, small, prostrate, branched, puberulent herb, 10-20 cm long, with silvery scarious, bracts and stipules, sometimes tinged reddish. Stems hairy on one side only. Leaves 4-10 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, opposite, sessile to subsessile, linear to oblanceolate, mucronate, glabrescent. Flowers small, in heads about 3 mm broad, with few-flowers, along terminal and lateral branches mostly hidden in several silvery-scarious bracts. Calyx 5-lobed, each oblong, scarious margin, with awned near apex. Petals filiform. Stamens 5, free. Style bifid. Fruit a 1-seeded utricle. 

Flowering from February to May.
Sandy soil and silty regions.
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