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  • COMMON NAME: Bienertia
  • ARABIC: طرطير
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Bienertia cycloptera Bunge ex Boiss.
  • FAMILY: CHENOPODIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy Sabkha
  • 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://www.floraofqatar.com/bienertia_cycloptera.htm
Annual herb, 20-60 cm high, glaucous, more or less glabrous. Stem erect much branched from base. Leaves sessile, fleshy, linear to oblong, obtuse 1-2.5 cm long and 0.2-0.9 cm wide, deciduous. Flowers 0.2-0.3 cm in diameter, axillary of 4-10 flowered or in clustered racemes; bracts ovate, small. Perianth-segments broadly winged in fruit, the wings connate. Utricle fleshy orbicular, 0.5-0.8 cm in diameter with spongy, disc-shaped, horizontal, nearly entire wing. Seeds crustaceous, granulated. Flowering from September to December.
Salt marshes near coastal regions or inland sabkhas.
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