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  • COMMON NAME: Awnaat, Aybonah, Girsot, Orem, Sowas
  • ARABIC: هندبوب، حلب، أثانثوب
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Periploca aphylla Decne.
  • SYNONYMS: Campelepis viminea Falc.
  • FAMILY: ASCLEPIADACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Fodder (F) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Rocky)
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP). Food plant of Pontia glauconome, the Desert White butterfly.
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:100428-1 Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. 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.
Whole plant used for treating skin disorders and reduces swellings. Flower buds edible. Used to be fodder plant for livestock. Dried stalks, roasted and ground. Used as snuff. Root sometimes used as treatment for snakebite. Cotton thread or rope was soaked in water in which young plant had been boiled, to strengthen and protect the cotton from rotting.

Shrub, 50-150 cm high, with long rigid branches, whip-like, naked or nearly leafless, indurate, spinescent at apex, velvety-canescent while young, then glabrous. Leaves few, 2-5 mm long, ovate, caducous. Flowers in subsessile, densely compound cymes. Corolla brownish-green, 9-14 mm in diameter, lobes ovate, obtuse, concave, furnished with white-bearded in the distal half. Segments of corona 2-auriculate or 3-lobed, ending in a simple awn. Follicles 5-10 cm long, woody, linear, terete, tapering at both ends, velvety, later glabrous. 

Flowering from February to April.
Rocky places around mountains.
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