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  • COMMON NAME: Smooth mustard
  • ARABIC: حويره
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Sisymbrium erysimoides Desf.
  • SYNONYMS: Hesperis erysimodes
  • FAMILY: BRASSICACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Landscape (L)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Gulley
  • 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/sisymbrium_erysimoides.htm https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/sisymbrium-erysimoides Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
Annual, 20-60 cm high. Stems erect, simple or branched, sparsely pubescent of simple, white hairs, sometimes glabrous. Basal leaves 3-8 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, petiolate, lyrate-pinnatifid or dentate with hastate terminal lobe; cauline leaves the same but narrow, and smaller. Flowers minute. Petals about 2.5 mm long, spathulate, pale-yellow. Fruiting pedicels erect-spreading, 1.5-3 mm long, hairy above. Siliques 20-40 mm long, 1 mm broad, erect-spreading, broader at base than apex; valves thin, glabrous or hairy, 1-nerved. Seeds 15-25 in each locule, about 1 mm long, ellipsoid, brownish. Flowering from February to May.
Slopes of hill sides, wadis and roadsides.
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