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  • COMMON NAME: Schweinfurthia
  • ARABIC: قطف، مرور
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Schweinfurthia imbricata A.G.Mill., M.Short & D.A.Sutton
  • FAMILY: PLANTAGINACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Dubai , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual Biennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
Sanjay Gairola, Tamer Mahmoud, Hatem A. Shabana & Gary R. Feulner(2021): Distribution and ecology of the Hajar Mountain endemic Schweinfurthia imbricata in theUnited Arab Emirates, Botany Letters, https://doi.org/10.1080/238181072021.1905058 . Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/65012875
It is a prostrate, spreading annual or biennial herb with round, dark green, overlapping leaves. The flowers are pink and white with darker purple veins and a yellow throat, on short pedicels from leaf axils. The capsules are glabrous and spherical on curved stalks, each bearing many seeds (diaspore size c. 0.25 cm) with longitudinal and transverse ridges. A rare and limited range species, it has been found mostly on gravel in the areas to the north and south of the Hatta road. It was not expected in WWNP, where two specimens have now been found, one in silt behind the Wadi Wurayah dam and one on gravel along the distal portion of the surface water outflow below the Wadi Wurayah waterfall. These are the northernmost UAE records, ca. 25 km from the closest other record, near Siji.
sandy and gravelly soils and sandy wadi fans.
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