Please Open The Website From Desktop

Close
  • COMMON NAME: Indian White Head
  • ARABIC: زعتر مر
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Enicostema axillare (Lam.) A. Rayal
  • SYNONYMS: Gentiana axillaris Poir. ex Lam., Xolemia axillaris (Poir. ex Lam.) Raf.
  • FAMILY: GENTIANACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Stony)
  • 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://www.efloraofgandhinagar.in/plant-details.php?cateUrl=herb&plantUrl=enicostema-axillare#:~:text=About%20Enicostema%20axillare%20Plant%20%3A%20Habit%20%3A%20A,and%20narrow%2C%20acute%20or%20obtuse%2C%20glabrous%20strongly%203-nerved. https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/263414 https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:367187-1#synonyms
An erect, leafy, single-stemmed, glabrous herb, 5-20 cm high. Stem quadrangular, with 4 distinct ridges. Leaves 2-5 cm long, 3-6 mm wide, sessile, opposite, linear to lanceolate, acute or obtuse, glabrous, 3-nerved. Flowers many, sessile in opposing, axillary clusters at each node. Corolla white, 6-8 mm long, tubular, with 5 ovate-lanceolate, acute lobes. Stamens inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube. Capsule 3-5 mm long, ellipsoid. Flowering from February to May.
Cliffs, stony ground and wet places.
1 / 3
2 / 3
3 / 3