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  • COMMON NAME: Hawksbeard
  • ARABIC: علوي
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Crepis micrantha Czer.
  • SYNONYMS: C. parriflora Desf. ex Pers.
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: 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. https://www.plantarium.ru/page/image/id/142683.html https://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/93086/tab/fiche
Slender, annual herb, 30-80 cm high. Stems erect, paniculately branched from middle or below, sparsely hairy to glabrous. Basal leaves petiolate, oblanceolate, dentate to pinnatified, up to 12 cm long, 2-4 cm wide. Cauline leaves sessile, lanceolate, sagittate-clasping, acute. Peduncles 0.5-2.5 cm long, slender spreading. Heads small, 10-30 flowered. Involucre 3-6 mm long, tomentose, usually setose on margin and midrib. Florets yellow, exceeding the involucre. Style branches green or yellow. Achenes 1-2 mm long, unbeaked, pale yellow, oblong, 10-ribbed. Pappus about 3 mm long, deciduous. Flowering from March to April.
Sandy soil and alluvial plains.
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