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  • COMMON NAME: Shrubby horsetail
  • ARABIC: العلندة ( القعود الورقي )
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Ephedra ciliata C.A. Meyer
  • SYNONYMS: Ephedra foliata Boiss. Ex C.A. Meyer, Epeduncularis Boiss et Hausskn.
  • FAMILY: EPHEDRACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Umm-Al-Quwain , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Fruits (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Slope Slope (Rocky)
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: 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. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:383372-1/images Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
Edible fruit.
Subshrub, climbing or prostrate up 2 meters. Branches opposite, flexuous; twigs whorled. Leaves opposite, filiform, varying in length from a few to 3 cm long. Nodes with short, cupule-like sheaths. Male cones solitary or several at the tips of slender branches; anthers 3-4, sessile on a single column. Female cones 5-7 mm long and 4-6 mm wide sessile or peduncled at branchlet tips, the bracts united in pairs or whorls of 3 to form 3-4 cupules of which thw tow inner become fleshy at maturity forming a berry-like fruit. seeds oblong and pointed about 6 mm long and 2 mm wide. Flowering from March to May.
Rocky slopes and wadi-sides.
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