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  • COMMON NAME: Pink Mustard
  • ARABIC: خزام
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Erucaria crassifolia (Forssk.) Delile
  • SYNONYMS: Brassica crassifolia
  • FAMILY: BRASSICACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi 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://efloraofindia.com/2014/01/29/erucaria-crassifolia/
Annual herb, up to 35 cm high, many branched from the base, glaucous, nearly glabrous often violet-purple colored at stem base. Leaves fleshy, petiolat, pinnatisect with linear lobes, the upper ones filiform, entire. Sepals about 3.5 mm long. Petals about 7 mm long, rose, violet or rarely white. Fruiting pedicels 1.5-3 mm long, often curved, variously spreading, lower joint, cylindrical, many seeded, the upper joint 1-3 seeded with short and awl-shaped beak. Flowering from February to April.
Wadis of gypsaceous sandy soil.
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