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  • COMMON NAME: alkali weed, rosin weed.
  • ARABIC: شويل، ندوة، مليحة
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Cressa cretica L.
  • SYNONYMS: Cressa monosperma Stokes,
  • FAMILY: CONVOLVULACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Umm-Al-Quwain , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy Sabkha
  • 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. Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:267234-1 https://www.floraofqatar.com/cressa_cretica.htm 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.
Extremely salt tolerant up to seawater salinity. Several known folk medicinal uses. Boiled in water and taken internally as a tonic, aphrodisiac and expectorant. Dried leaves crushed with sugar taken as a treatment for jaundice.
Perennial herb, 10-30 cm high, erect or diffuse. Stems branched from above, grey-pubescent, leafy. Leaves closely condensed, salt-exuding, sessile, ovate-lanceolate to ovate, acute, subcordate, 2-9 mm long, 1-5 mm wide. Flowers in short, dense spike-like racemes at the end of branchlets. Calyx hairy, 3-4 mm long. lobes ovate, acute. Corolla 5-6 mm long, white to cream or rose, pubescent at tips. Stamens and styles exerted. Ovary 2-celled; stigma capitate. Capsule ovoid, 3-4 mm long. Seed 1. Flowering from March to May or September.
Around Sabkha or salt marshes and in cultivated areas.
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