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  • COMMON NAME: Saltwort
  • ARABIC: فريط، خريط
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Salsola cyclophylla Baker
  • FAMILY: AMARANTHACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • 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://www.floraofqatar.com/salsola_cyclophylla.htm
Shrub or stiff shrublet, yellowish or whitish tomentose up to 50 cm high. Stems erect or ascending, divaricately much branched from the base. Leaves suborbicular, crowded into bud-like knots, 1-1.5 mm long and about 1 mm wide, sessile, rounded, tomentose. Flowers solitary, axillary, arranged in slender, long, loose, interrupted spikes. Perianth segments short, ovate to lanceolate, obtuse, cuneat at baase, adherent with ovate, densely pilose, incurved wings. Flowering from October to December.
rocky and sandy places.
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