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  • COMMON NAME: Wild Mustard
  • ARABIC: خميسه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Cleome viscosa L.
  • SYNONYMS: C. icosandra L.
  • FAMILY: CLEOMACEAE
  • 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:320133-2/images
Annual, erect herb, densely hairy, with glandular and eglandular hairs, up to 60 cm high. Leaves 3-5 foliolate; petiolate; leaflets obovate or oblong, 1-3 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, middle one largest; petiole up to 5 cm long. Flowers about 1.5 cm across, solitary in the axils of the bracts; pedicels slender about 1 cm long, patent-erect and elongating in fruit. Sepals 5-8 mm long, lanceolate, acute, glandular. Petals 8-15 mm long oblong-obovate, yellow. Stamens 10-20. Capsule 20-50 mm long, 3-5 mm broad. linear-oblong, erect, striated, narrowed to the both ends, glandular-pubescent. Seeds small, rounded, glabrous, dark-brown. Flowering from April to July.
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