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  • COMMON NAME: Trichodesma
  • ARABIC: منقار الطير، حيمحيم
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Trichodesma africanum (L.) Sm.
  • SYNONYMS: Boraginella africana (L.) Kuntze, Borago africana L., Borraginoides africana (L.) Hiern, Pollichia africana (L.) Medik.
  • FAMILY: BORAGINACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony) 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:121223-1#synonyms
Perennial, desert plant, 20-70 cm high, bristly, with hairs springing from tubercles. Stems erect, richly branched usually with woody base. Leaves opposite, varying in size and shape, lanceolate to oblong, narrowed at both ends, petiolate; upper leaves sessile. Racemes terminal, nearly naked. Pedicels filiform, strigose, as long as the calyx. Calyx-lobes in fruit cordate at the base, 9-12 mm long, densely hairy. Corolla 10-12 mm across, blue; throat yellow, with purple spots. Staminal cone laxy, hairy on the beck. Nutlets brown, ovate, granular at the back, with denticulate margin. Flowering from February to April.
Mountains, sandy gravel soil and wadis.
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