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  • COMMON NAME: Creeping milkweed, Phyllanthus maderaspatensis.
  • ARABIC: عرق أخضر
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Phyllanthus maderaspatensis L.
  • SYNONYMS: Diasperus maderaspatensis (L.) Kuntze, Nellica maderaspatana Raf.
  • FAMILY: EUPHORBIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Dubai
  • 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:354211-1/images V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Glabrous, glaucous, erect subshrub, up to 60 cm high, with several slender, few-branched, teret or angled stems. Leaves scattered, linear-lanceolate, variable in size, 1-5 cm long and 3-12 mm wide, obtuse, subsessile. Stipules lanceolate, entire, with a reddish-purple midrib and clear hyaline margin, 1-1.5 mm long. Male flower 2 mm across, subsessile. Female flower 2.5-3 mm across, very shortly pedicelled; sepals obovate, reddish-green, with clear hyaline margin; styles free, minute, 2-lobed. Capsule 3-4 mm in diameter, reddish, depressed-globose, smooth. Flowering from September to February.
A weed in gardens and farms.
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