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  • COMMON NAME: Convolvulus
  • ARABIC: رخام
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Convolvulus glomeratus Choisy
  • SYNONYMS: C. congestus, C. arabicus, Ipomoea auricoma.
  • FAMILY: CONVOLVULACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • 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:266274-1/images Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
Perennial herb, 30-70 cm long, with ascending, twining stems. Stems slender, mostly with appressed pubescent. Leaves short petiolate, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 1-3 cm long, rarely more, 0.5-2 cm wide, entire, green, slightly cordate-hastate base. Flowers 3-9, in axillary pedunculate, involucrate heads. Peduncle 1-5 cm long. Bract 7-12 mm long, ovate, acuminate. Sepals unequal, villous, oblong-acuminate, outer lobes 7-11 mm long and about 4 mm wide. Corolla white, 10-12 mm long, with five pubescent bands on the upper outer half. Filaments unequal. Ovary glabrous; style glabrous, about 3.5 mm long; stigma 1-1.5 mm long. Seeds 2-4, glabrous, tubercled, black. Flowering from March to May.
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