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  • COMMON NAME: Wedge-Leaf Taverniera
  • ARABIC: ورد الجبل
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Taverniera lappacea (Forssk.) DC.
  • SYNONYMS: Hedysarum lappaceum Forssk.
  • FAMILY: FABACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Ajman , Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
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:520195-1#synonyms https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:23665-1/images
Subshrub, with long branches. Stem velutinous, grayish, silky or tomentose. Leaves usually few, trifoliolate, palmately compound; tomentose, lamina 2-6 mm long, obovate, velutinous, petiole 0-6 mm long. Inflorescence a 1-3 flowered in the axial of the leaf, bract minute. Calyx 4-5 mm long, tomentose. Corolla yellow, with bluish tinge, nearly twice as long as calyx. Pod 1-2 seeded, densely echinulate and hairy. Flowering from February to March.
Sandy soils.
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