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  • COMMON NAME: Spider Flower
  • ARABIC: مقيبل الشمس، حريظه، مخيسه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Cleome rupicola Vicary
  • SYNONYMS: C. stocksiana
  • FAMILY: CLEOMACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Sandy
  • 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://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/cl/cleomaceae/cleome/cleome-rupicola 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.
Extract from whole plant used as eye-drops to treat cataracts.
Erect perennial herb, 20-50 cm high, with woody base, branched from below, glandular all over especially above. Leaves 1-3.5 cm long, 0.5-2 cm broad, simple, ovate or obovate, entire, tubercled, palmately 3-nerved; upper leaves smaller and narrow; petiole 1-3 cm long. Bracts small or leafy. Flowers 6-8 mm across, in racemes, short or long densely glandular. Sepals 1-2 mm long, ovate, glandular. Petals 5-8 mm long, 2-3 mm broad, obovate-spathulate, clawed, yellow usually dark or purple veined. Stamens 6, filaments clavate as long as petals. Fruit 2-4 cm long, 4-7 mm wide, oblong-linear ending into a short style, pendulous, striate. Seeds large, dark. Flowering from February to April.
Wadi beds and sandy gravelly soil.
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