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  • COMMON NAME: Spider plant
  • ARABIC: مخيسة
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Cleome droserifolia (Forssk.) Delile
  • SYNONYMS: Rorida arabica, Rorida droserifolia, Roridula arabica Roem, Roridula droserifolia Forssk.
  • FAMILY: CLEOMACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Rocky) 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://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:147016-1#synonyms
A low, compact, cushion-like undershrub, green-yellowish, glandular-viscid, much branched from woody base, 25-40 cm high, densely leaf. Leaves 7-15 mm in diameter, simple, orbicular, 3-nerved, densely hairy; petiolate. Flowers about 1 cm, axillary, long pedicelled. Petals yellow, ciliate, glandular above. Stamens 4, shorter than style. Fruit 1-1.5 cm, oblong-cylindrical on a straight patent peduncle, setose-glandular. Seeds reniform, glabrous, minutely dotted. Flowering from February to April.
Sandy gravelly soil and among rocks.
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