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  • COMMON NAME: Andrachne, Maidenbush.
  • ARABIC: شجرة العقرب، لبينة، عرق العقرب
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Andrachne aspera Spreng.
  • SYNONYMS: Andrachne gruvelii
  • FAMILY: EUPHORBIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Slope (Rocky)
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • 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:338624-1 Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. 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.
Roots used for treating eye inflammation. Roots eaten as a treatment for scorpion stings.
Blue-green, papilose-scabrous, 10-30 cm high. Stems many, arising from a woody base, prostrate or ascending, simple or branched, rigid. Leaves suborbicular-reniform, 12 mm long and 6-8 wide, entire, rounded at the apex, long-petiolate, stipules green, with a hyaline margin, 1 mm long. Flowers solitary. Male flowers 2 mm across, pedicel 3 mm long, sepals ovate. Female flowers 3-4 mm across, pedicels 6 mm long, sepals ovate-lanceolate. Capsule 2-3 mm in diameter, depressed globose, glandular-pubescent. Seeds triquetrous. Flowering from February to April.
Rocky mountain slopes, limestone and wadis.
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