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  • COMMON NAME: broadleaf cottonrose, broad-leaved cudweed.
  • ARABIC: قطنه (قطنيه)
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Filago pyramidatum L.
  • SYNONYMS: F. spathulata C. Presl
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Wadi Slope
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:207952-1 V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filago_pyramidata#:~:text=Filago%20pyramidata%2C%20the%20broadleaf%20cottonrose%20or%20broad-leaved%20cudweed%2C,plus%20Great%20Britain%2C%20the%20Low%20Countries%2C%20and%20Germany. http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000035570
Appressed tomentose annuals, 5-30 cm high, with erect primary stem of variable length and divergent branches, usually overtopping the main stem. Leaves oblong-spathulate, apiculate. Capitula c. 8-16 in dense, nearly globose glomerulus, 9-12 mm in diameter. Involucre 6 mm long, in the upper half pyramidata and distinctly 5-angled; phyllaries 5-seriate, lanceolate, outer and median carinate, lanate on back, ending in a divergent yellowish arista 1-1.5 mm long, innermost glabrous, phyllaries slightly divergent at fruiting-time. Outer filiform, female florets without pappus in the axils of the phyllaries, in the center 5-6 (-7) bisexual florets and a varying number of female ones. Cypselas 0.7-1 mm, smooth or thinly papillose, olive brown; pappus in the central florets c. 3 mm long, setae 12-16.
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