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  • COMMON NAME: Desert Figwort
  • ARABIC: زيته
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Scrophularia deserti Delile
  • SYNONYMS: Desert Figwort
  • FAMILY: SCROPHULARIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony) Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
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.floraofqatar.com/scrophularia_deserti.htm#:~:text=Purple%20desert%20flower%20of%20Scrophularia%20deserti%20%28Al-Jar%20or,Qatar%2C%20March%2023%2C%202013%20Rashid%20Street%2C%20Ad-Dah%CC%B1irah%2C%20Qatar Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
Perennial herb, 25-50 cm high, branched from a woody base, many stemmed, glabrous except for minute glands in the inflorescence. Leaves opposite and alternate, thick, cartilaginous at margin, petioled, ovate to lyrate in outline, with 3-6 obtuse lobes; upper sessile, pinnatipartite in linear-spathulate, obtuse, dentate lobes. Cymes short-peduncled, bifid, 3-8 flowered. Pedicel shorter than calyx. Calyx 2-3 mm long, obtusely lobed, narrowly white-margined. Corolla 4-6 mm long, partly deep red and partly paler. Stamens included. Capsule 2-3 mm long, nearly globose, weakly bilobed. Seeds many, tiny, dark brown to black, transversely wrinkled. Flowering from February to April.
Sandy soil and mountains.
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