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  • COMMON NAME: Notoceras
  • ARABIC: هثارا، عشبة أم سالم
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Notoceras bicorne (Aiton) Amo
  • SYNONYMS: N. canaricnse
  • FAMILY: BRASSICACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Gulley Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production. Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
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. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:287811-1/images Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.
Honey nectar plants.
Low annual, with appressed, simple and forked hairs up to 20 cm high. Stems procumbent to ascending, branching from base. Leaves 1.5-3.5 mm long and 3-5 cm wide, oblanceolate and tapering at base. Flowers in terminal racemes. Sepals about 1.5 mm hirsute. Petals 1.5-2 mm long, oblong-linear, obtuse, white. Fruit more or less appressed to the stem, 5-9 mm long and 1.5 mm wide, tetragonous; valves rigid, distinctly 1-nerved, constricted between the seeds, horned at apex. Seeds 2-3 in each cell, pale-brown, compressed. Flowering from February-March.
Sandy gravel soil and hillsides.