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  • COMMON NAME: Poppy-leaved reichardia
  • ARABIC: مرار
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Reichardia tingitana (L.) Roth
  • SYNONYMS: R. orientalis
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production. Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
https://www.floraofqatar.com/reichardia_tingitana.htm 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. 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. 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.
Honey nectar plants. Dried and powdered leaves mixed with water to treat colic and constipation. Extract of fresh leaves mixed with other herbs as eye drops.
Annual herb, 3-30 cm high. Stems decumbent, thickened, branched from the base. Leaves mostly variable in shape and size, basal rosulate, oblong to oblanceolate, deeply toothed with prickly lobes, uppermost smaller, undivided, sessile, cordate-clasping at base. Heads big, solitary, terminal on thickened peduncles, yellow flowered, with ligules reddish-purple at backs or above. Involucre 1-1.5 cm long, imbricate, broadly white-margined, with outer bracts broadly ovate, with acuminate, black, keel-like appendage at tip. Achenes tetragone, 4-furrowed, truncate at base and apex, transversely and obtusely rugose-tubercled, brownish-grey, about 2 mm long. Pappus caducous, of fine white hairs. Flowering from November–May.
Wadis, mountains slopes and rocky places.
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