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  • COMMON NAME: Popcorn Plant
  • ARABIC: تكاك
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Pseudogaillonia hymenostephana (Jaub. & Spach)
  • FAMILY: RUBIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Gulley Slope (Rocky) 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. http://enhg.org/field/dahir/popcorn.htm
Dwarf, perennial herbs up to 40 cm high, scabrid or hairy, erect, most faetid when fresh, stewart, with opposite divaricating strict slender branches. Leaves 1-2.5 cm long linear-oblong, margin revolute. Fruit of 2, small, hispid cocci. Flowering from February to May.
Mountains, rocky places and wadis.
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