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  • COMMON NAME: Schweinfurth’s phagnalon
  • ARABIC: صوفان
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Phagnalon schweinfurthii Sch. Bip. ex Schweinf.
  • SYNONYMS: P. viridifolium Decne. ex Boiss.
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/Phagnalon.schweinfurthii https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77232637-1 https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/854337-Phagnalon-schweinfurthii Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Shrubby below, branches ascending, slender, clothed with close white tomentum. Leaves linear, acute, mucronate sessile, subauriculate-amplexicaul, subentire, green and subglabrate above, more or less hoary-lanate beneath, 1-2 1\2 in. long by 1\12-1\4 in. wide, margins slightly revolute. Capitula widely campanulate, many-flowered, 1\2-3\4 in. diam. on slender hoary peduncles 1-4 in. long, bearing a few reduced leaves below, terminal or from the upper axils. Scales of involucre acuminate, apiculate, thinly woolly on the back, persistent, inner linear, outer lanceolate or ovate. Receptacle plano-convex, 3\8 in diameter.
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