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  • COMMON NAME: Rustyback
  • ARABIC: حشيشة الدهباب
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Asplenium ceterach L.
  • SYNONYMS: Ceterach officinarum
  • FAMILY: ASPLENIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Gulley Slope (Stony)
  • 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:17040860-1/images http://cbnfc-ori.org/fiche-espece/especes-vegetales/1613b/13981 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.
Used for the treatment of kidney stones and urinary tract diseases.
Small fern with shorter-creeping rhizome, erect or ascending, up to 15 cm, clothed with blackish-brown lanceolate, acuminate scales. Fronds oblong, spreading, pinnae alternate, round-ovate to oblong, obtuse, entire, glabrous above, confluent. Indusium absent.
Rocky hillsides, damp shady clefts and stony walls.
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