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  • COMMON NAME: saltbush, orache.
  • ARABIC: عجرم
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Atriplex dimorphostegia Kar. & Kir.
  • SYNONYMS: Obione dimorphostegia
  • FAMILY: CHENOPODIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
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:163766-1#synonyms
Prostrate or ascending annual herb up to 45 cm. high. Stems diffusely branched, whitish or gray-pubescent somewhat spongy. Leaves 2-6 cm long, 1-3 cm broad, alternate, entire, fresh silvery with crystalline papillae especially at under surface, petioled, rhomboid to ovate-elliptical, truncate at base. Flowers 5-12, in both axillary and short terminal spikes. Fruiting-bracts rounded-cordate, reticulately nerved, 0.6-0.8 cm broad, with tubercles. Flowering from February to May.
Sandy soil and near coastal regions.
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