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  • COMMON NAME: Andrachne, Maidenbush.
  • ARABIC: لبينة، حويمضة
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Andrachne telephioides L.
  • SYNONYMS: A. rotundifolia
  • FAMILY: EUPHORBIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Gulley Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
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:338694-1/images V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
The plant is poisonous and used as an insecticide.
Glabrous, yellowish-green, densely leafy perennial herb. Stems up to 30 cm high, simple or branched arising from a brown much branched stock. Leaves alternate to subopposite, obovate to suborbicular, usually obtuse margin hyaline 4-8 mm long, 2-5 mm wide, on short (1-3 mm) petioles. Flowers solitary or fascicled. Male flower 2 mm across; pedicels 1 mm long, sepals ovate-rhomboid, green, with a hyaline margin, entire; anthers 4-lobed. Female flowers 3 mm across, pedicels 2-3 mm long, sepals larger than in the male flowers, petals smaller than sepals. Capsule depressed-globose, 3-lobed, 1-3 mm across, with 6 triquetrous seeds. Flowering from February to April.
Among rocks, sandy gravel soil and hillsides.
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