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  • COMMON NAME: Germanders
  • ARABIC: الجعدة، اليعدة
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Teucrium stocksianum Boiss
  • SYNONYMS: Teucrium stocksianum subsp. Stocksianum
  • FAMILY: LAMIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Sharjah , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Wadi Slope Gulley
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP). Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
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. Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. Encyclopedia of medicinal plants of UAE 1&2 from Zayed complex for herbal Research & traditional medicine, AD.
It is a well-known plant in the UAE, and it is frequently used in the treatment of stomach and liver diseases, renal colic, cold diseases, malaria fever, diabetes and skin diseases. Honey nectar plants.

Rather diffuse dwarf shrublet, up to 35 cm high, with many erect or ascending branches from the base, grey-green, tomentose, with short pubescence. Leaves in distant pairs, ovate-lanceolate, flat, toothed from middle to apex, tapering below, sessile or subessile, 5-14 mm long, 4-6 mm wide. Flowers in verticillasters toward ends of the branches. Calyx 4-66 mm long, not oblique at base nearly equal teeth. Corolla white-pink or cream lip, hairy, with dense purple venation, twice as long as calyx. Stamens often exserted; anthers brown. 

Flowering from March-April.
Rocky habitats : wadis and hillsides, compact fine textured soils with stones.
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