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  • COMMON NAME: Pergularia
  • ARABIC: أبو قرون، غلقة، لبن الحماره
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Pergularia tomentosa L.
  • SYNONYMS: Doemia cordata (Forssk.) R.Br.
  • FAMILY: ASCLEPIADACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Dubai , Sharjah , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Wadi Slope Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP). One of the food plants of the caterpillar of Danaus chrysippus, the Plain Tiger butterfly.
https://eol.org/pages/2900389/media 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. Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. 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.
Moderately salt-tolerant, it has a wide range of folk medicinal uses. The plant used for skin problems, as an expectorant and as a purgative. Used for removing hair from hides in tanning leather.

Woolly-canescent, twining shrub with milky juice. Stem slender, tomentose, the young branches twining around the old. Leaves 2-5 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, cordate or reniform, acute, piculate, entire, glabrous or pubescent beneath, petioles 1-2 cm long. Flowers greenish-yellow or white, pedicels 1-3 cm long, Calyx 2-4 mm long, divided to the base, lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, hirsute. Corolla 8-11 mm in diameter, tube narrowly campanulate, lobes spreading, ovate-oblong, acute, ciliate, revolute. Corona double.  

Flowering from February to May.
In wadi beds and on plateau areas, on clayey to sandy, gravelly and stony soils.
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