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  • COMMON NAME: Geranium
  • ARABIC: دهمه، منقار الطير
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Geranium trilophum Boiss.
  • SYNONYMS: Geranium yemense
  • FAMILY: GERANIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi
  • 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://plants.jstor.org/compilation/Geranium.trilophum https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/45466077 Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
Annual, hirsute, 12-35 cm high. Stem erect, dichotomously branched. Lower leaves with long petioles, 5-12 cm long; blade orbicular, in outline 2-4 cm in diameter, palmately, 5-7 partite into cuneate, 3-lobed segments. Peduncles very short, 2-flowered. Bracts 2 mm, lanceolate. Sepals 4-6 mm long, ovate, aristate, hairy. Petals 1-1.2 cm long, pink, obovate-cuneate, ciliate above base. Mericarps with 3 keels or wings and deep furrows between them; lateral keels dentate. Seeds tiny, smooth. Flowering from March to April.
Gravel, shady places in wadis and crevices of rocks.