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  • COMMON NAME: Stomach bush
  • ARABIC: مرار، شجرة الباباو
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Dicoma schimperi (DC.) Baill. ex O.Hoffm.
  • SYNONYMS: Hochstetteria schimperi DC.
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Dubai , Sharjah , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Crushed leaves produce yellow dye.
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:201363-1/general-information 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. M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.
Appressed-hirsute or nearly glabrous, perennial, erect herb, up to 60 cm high. Stems angular-striate, with forked branches. Leaves shortly petioled, ovate or elliptic, 2-3 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, acute, serrulate, the uppermost leaves smaller. Heads solitary at the end of the branches, 1-2 cm in diameter, involucrate subtended by 1-2, small leaves, involucral bracts straight, very rigid, nerved. Achenes top-shaped, densely villous. Pappus pales, narrowly subulate-lanceolate, incurved, membranous, hyaline, undulate, with a strong midrib. Flowering from March to April.
Silt-floored basins, wadi beds or stony ground.
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