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  • COMMON NAME: African mustard
  • ARABIC: رجيجه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Malcolmia africana (L.) R.Br.
  • SYNONYMS: Hesperis africana L.
  • FAMILY: BRASSICACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Gulley 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://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/malcolmia-africana
Annual, up to 30 cm high, pubescent with scattered simple and forked hairs. Stems much branched, leafy. Leaves 1.5-6 cm long and 0.5-2 cm wide, oblong, dentate, tapering into a petiole. Flowers pink to pale-violet. Pedicels shorter than sepals. Sepals nearly equal at base, about 5 mm long. Petals about 1 cm long, obovate-oblong, entire, long-clawed. Siliqua 3-5 cm long, nearly 4-angled, spreading, straight or curved, densely hispid, with acute stigma. Flowering from February to April.
Hills and sandy soil.
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