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  • COMMON NAME: Senhwar, Sahaer, Dogbane.
  • ARABIC: الحرمل، أظفر
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Rhazya stricta Decne
  • FAMILY: APOCYNACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Umm-Al-Quwain , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Cosmectis (C) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Wadi Slope Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP). Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production. Poisonous, not grazed. Dominate in heavily grazed areas because livestock avoids eating it.
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://www.inaturalist.org/observations/71491169 Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. Encyclopedia of medicinal plants of UAE 1&2 from Zayed complex for herbal Research & traditional medicine, AD. 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.
Moderately salt-tolerant. The plant is tonic, digestive, anti-cancer, pain reliever, tonic, and has anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory properties. It is used in the UAE a lot in folk medicine, where the juicy parts are collected in the early morning in areas far from pollution, dried and sold in perfume shops, and used in the treatment of diabetes, fever and chest allergies, and used to treat dysentery (acute dysentery), as a laxative and repellent for intestinal worms, and as a treatment for For abdominal pain, and inhalation for headaches and asthma. The ash from burning the roots is used in the manufacture of kohl. The whole plant including the seeds used for medicinal purposes. Also used for improving bad breath, used for to increase lactation. Honey nectar plants. Crushed fresh leaves mixed with oil and/or ginger as poultic for rashes and painful swelling. Juice from leaves used to treat eye infections.

Is an evergreen miniature shrub with thick foliage. It is a glabrous, upright perennial plant with many branches emerging from the base. The main stalk is smooth and thickly branched, particularly towards the base, in a semi-erect form. Sessile and simple leaf are linear-oblong or ellipsoidal, practically upright, with an entire border and sharp apex, dense, leather, and parallel blade tapering toward the base. Flowers are bisexual; inflorescences are axillary cymes found near the tips of branches; flowers are pentamerous, white, 2–2.5 cm long, short-pedicelled, and have inserted stamens; Flowers are heterosexual; inflorescences are axillary cymes located towards the ends of branches; flowers are pentamerous, white, 2–2.5 cm in length, short-pedicelled, and have attached stamens; flowers have white petals; the calyx is roughly 4 mm long, deeply lobed. The corolla is 1–1.4 cm in diameter, white; tube cylindrical; lobes ovate, with a rounded mucronate apex, c. 12–15 mm long, and have a brownish-green tube enlarged slightly above the middle and longer than the salverform limb, partially occluded by bristles at the throat; limb lobes are widely obovate, obtuse, mucronate, and are white inside. Flowering from February-June.

sandy gravelly soils, rocky places and wadi beds.
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