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  • COMMON NAME: Bird Tongue
  • ARABIC: شدخ
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Parietaria alsinifolia Del.
  • SYNONYMS: Freirea alsinifolia
  • FAMILY: URTICACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Slope Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • 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://www.floraofqatar.com/parietaria_alsinifolia.htm Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
Annual, diffuse. puberulent herb 8-40 cm high. Stems filiform, flaccid, procumbent or ascending, branching from the base, branches terete, strait covered with white hairs. Leaves 0.5-2.5 cm long and 0.5-1.2 cm broad, broadly ovate, rounded at base, hairy above, 3-nerved, entire. Petioles slender 1.0-2.5 cm long. Inflorescence cymes axillary, with 3-flowers, the lower flower perfect with small lanceolate bract, other flowers pistillate with 3, ovate-cordate, membranous bracts, longer than perianth. Achene nearly ovoid, dark brown, shining, compressed. Flowering from February to April.
Grows in mountains and wadi sides near water or in damp and shady places under overhanging rocks.
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