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  • COMMON NAME: Ainbacees, hairy bugloss, rims.
  • ARABIC: خيل أغبر، كحل أغبر
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Gastrocotyle hispida (Forssk.) Bunge
  • SYNONYMS: Anchusa hispida Forssk.
  • FAMILY: BORAGINACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Umm-Al-Quwain , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Landscape (L)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. 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:941604-1/images
Moderate salinity tolerance, ornamental plant.
Annual, hispid herb, 7-25 cm across. Stems with few, stiffly, ascending branches. Leaves linear-oblong or spathulate, obtuse or acute, sessile, nearly wavy margined, hispid, 1-6 cm long, 5-15 mm wide. Flowers solitary in the leafy axils, tiny, bisexual, all subtended by leafy bracts. Calyx 2-3 mm long, deeply 5-lobed, each triangular-lanceolate, persistent. Corolla slightly exceeding the calyx, blue or violet, with papillose scales in the throat. Stamens 5, attached corolla-tube near the middle, included. Ovary bicarpelled, 4-lobed (rarely 2) glabrous. Nutels 2 horizontal wrinkled or 4 angular, wrinkled, with concave base. Flowering from February to April.
Sandy or salty limestone soil.
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