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  • COMMON NAME: Clustered yellowtop
  • ARABIC: حنوه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Flaveria trinervia (Spreng.) Mohr.
  • SYNONYMS: F. trinervata (Willd.) Baillon.
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace 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.floraofqatar.com/flaveria_trinervia.htm
A dichotomously branched, glabrous, annual herb, 20-60 cm high. Branches from all axils, divaricate. Leaves opposite, 2-6 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, elliptic-oblanceolate, serrate, acute, with 3 conspicuous veins. Heads compound, yellow, terminal, subglobose, 1-3 cm in diameter, sessile in the stem forks. Florets both hermaphrodite and ligulate female, with 2 connivent, yellowish, involucral bracts and 2-4 pleaceous receptacular bracts. Achenes 2-3 mm long, compressed, 10-12-ribbed, without pappus. Flowering from February to April.
Plantations near water.
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