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  • COMMON NAME: Boccone's sandspurry
  • ARABIC: أم ثريب
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Spergularia bocconei (Scheele) Asch. & Graebn.
  • SYNONYMS: S. atheniensis
  • FAMILY: CARYOPHYLLACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace
  • TYPES: Annual Biennial
  • REMARKS: Very rare. Recorded by R.Fitzgerald and J Martin from Jabal Dhanna.
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/spergularia_bocconei.htm https://flora-on.pt/?q=Spergularia+bocconei

Annual or biennial herb, 8-25 cm high, often tinged purplish, glandular-pubescent above. Leaves 1-3 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, floral leaves shorter, linear, mucronate; stipules tringular, white. Inflorescence leafy, many-flowered. Pedicels usually as long as or shorter than sepals. Sepals 2-3 mm long, glandular-pubescent. Petals shorter than sepals, pinkish. Fruiting-pedicel mostly equal to or shorter than the Capsule. Seeds wingless, greyish-brown. 

Flowering from March to May.
Fallow fields and waste places.
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