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  • COMMON NAME: Weasel's snout
  • ARABIC: سيسام
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Misopates orontium (L.) Raf.
  • SYNONYMS: Antirrhinum orontium L.
  • FAMILY: SCROPHULARIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Dubai , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: 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://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:806149-1/images Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
Annual herb, 20-40 cm high. Stem erect, sparingly, branched, glabrous to sparsely hirsute below, glandular-pubescent above. Leaves 20-50 mm long, 2-6 mm broad, linear-lanceolate, acute, subsessile. Flowers in lax spike-like racemes; pedicels short. Calyx with linear, unequal lobes and glandular hairy, 10-26 mm long. Corolla 10-15 mm long, pink-white, nearly as long as calyx. Capsule 8-10 mm long, ovoid, gibbous, glandular-hairy. Seeds numerous, tiny, dark-brown. Flowering from January to May.
A weed in fallow ground and cultivated places.
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