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  • COMMON NAME: Swinecress
  • ARABIC: رشاد، رشاد البحر
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Coronopus didymus (L.) Sm.
  • SYNONYMS: Lepidium didymum L.
  • FAMILY: BRASSICACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Fodder (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual Biennial
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:286148-1#synonyms V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Prostrate, annual or biennial herb, with much branched, hairy stems. Basal leaves 4-9 cm long, rosulate, petiolate, glabrous or sparsely hairy, pinnate with 6-9 pairs of pinnae; caulin leaves 2-4 cm long, more finely dissected. Flowers minute, 0.7-1 mm wide, in racemes. Sepals 0.5 mm long, ovate, obtuse, sparsely pubescent. Petals absent. Stamens 6, but only 2 bearing anthers. Anthers didymous. Silicles minute, on capillary pedicels, about 1.5*2 mm size, wrinkled, consisting of 2 indehiscent nutlets, with a deep sinus at apex between the nutlets. Seeds minute, yellowish-brown. Flowering from January to April.
Gardens and roadsides.
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