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  • COMMON NAME: Hamilton’s Farsetia
  • ARABIC: جربه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Farsetia hamiltonii Royle
  • SYNONYMS: Erysimum remotiflorum
  • FAMILY: BRASSICACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Sharjah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Rocky)
  • 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://www.visoflora.com/photos-nature/photo-farsetia-hamiltonii.html
Perennial or small shrub, usually with woody base, up to 50 cm high, grayish appressed-pubescent, with bipartite hairs. Leaves linear to oblong, entire, sessile, 1-6 cm long, 0.1-0.6 cm broad. Flowers small, ebracteate in lax racemes. Sepals 3-5 mm long. Petals orange-colored to whitish, slightly exceeding the sepals. Silique linear, 1-2.5 cm rarely longer and about 2 mm broad, compressed. Seeds uniseriate, compressed, surrounded by a scarious wing. Flowering from February to April.
Rocky places and limestone ground.