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  • COMMON NAME: spider plant
  • ARABIC: حريظه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Cleome scaposa DC.
  • SYNONYMS: C. papilosa
  • FAMILY: CLEOMACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Annual 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:147297-1/images Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
Annual, sometimes perennial herb, 10-30 cm high, erect, branched from below, hairy with glandular or eglandular hairs. Leaves simple, entire, suborbicular to ovate-cordate, 1-2 cm in diameter, strigose, papillose, penninerved, on long petioles. Upper leaves smaller and subsessile. Inflorescence rather lax, racemose; bracts small sessile. Flowers 3-5 mm across, yellow or white turning pinkish. Pedicels short, elongated in fruit. Sepals about 2 mm long, elliptic. Petals 3-4 mm long, obovate. Stamens 6. Fruit 20-30 mm long, 1-2 mm broad, slightly curved, very slender. Finely striate. Seeds glabrous, black. Flowering from July to November.
Mountain slopes and gravel.
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