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  • COMMON NAME: Amberboa
  • ARABIC: ليما
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Amberboa leucantha Cass.
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Dubai
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
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.
Annual herb, 20-50 cm high, stems slender, erect, forked. Lower leaves short, petioles, up to 10 cm long and 2-4 cm wide, obovate, incised-serrate or pinnatipartite into linear or oblong, toothed lobes, upper leaves sessile. Heads cylindrical-tubinate, 1-1.5 cm long, involucral bracts 3-5 veined, acute, hairy. Achenes hairy, about 4 mm long. Pappus of scabrous, purple scales, 4-5 mm long. Flowering from February to April.
Sandy soil, wadis and roadsides.