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  • COMMON NAME: Erucastrum
  • ARABIC: صفيره
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Erucastrum arabicum Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • SYNONYMS: Brassica arabica, Kibera arabica.
  • FAMILY: BRASSICACEAE
  • 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:283465-1#synonyms https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/38792001
Annual, leafy herb, up to 35 cm high, sparsely hispid below and glabrous above. Stems erect or ascending, many branched. Basal leaves 3-5 cm long, 2-3 cm broad, pinnatifid; uppermost leaves smaller, subentire or lobed. Inflorescence of lax terminal racemes. Flowers minute, about 4 mm across. Sepals erect. Petals about 3-4 mm long, oblong-obovate, yellow, twice as long as sepals. Fruiting pedicels thick, erect, spreading, 3-5 mm long. Siliques 1-3 cm long, linear, torulose; valves, keeled, 1-nerved. Seeds ovoid, many in 1-row in each loculus. Flowering from February to April.
Field, orchards, waste places, and roadsides.
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