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  • COMMON NAME: small-flowered honesty
  • ARABIC: جلجلان
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Savignya parviflora (Delile) Webb
  • SYNONYMS: Lun.aria parviflora Del, Savignya negyptiaca DC.
  • FAMILY: BRASSICACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: After seeding, the silvery, transparent inner membrane of fruit remains on plant.
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.floraofqatar.com/savignya_parviflora.htm 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.
Ascending, annual herb, branched from base, up to 30 cm high, with glandular or eglandular hairs below and glabrous above. Basal leaves, 2-5 cm broad, obovate-oblong, shortly stalked, sinuate-dentate, fleshy, apex obtuse; upper leaves smaller, sessile, nearly entire, fleshy. Flowers 4-6 mm across, whitish or pinkish; pedicel 7-12 mm long, elongated in fruit. Sepals 2-3 mm long. Petals 4-5 mm long. Fruiting pedicels slender, 1-2.5 cm long, spreading or deflexed. Silicles ovate to broadly elliptic, 0.8-1.6 cm long, 0.5-0.8 cm broad, compressed, glabrous, finely veined, with truncate apical beak, about 2 mm long. Seeds flat, orbicular, about 3 mm in diameter including the wing. Flowering from January to April.
Desert plains and rocky wadis, mostly on sandy soil.
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