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  • COMMON NAME: stoneseed
  • ARABIC: حلمه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Echiochilon kotschyi ( Boiss. & Hohen. ) I.M. Johnston.
  • SYNONYMS: Lithospermum kotschyi
  • FAMILY: BORAGINACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Umm-Al-Quwain , Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:4560-1 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. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Pounded with salt, turmeric and ginger, applied on burns and ulcers; paste of leaves used for ringworm, eczema, wounds and skin sores.

suffrutescent, low plant with white, rigid stems, hispid, up to 25cm high. Leaves opposite below, linear-oblong, sessile, 3-6 mm long, about 1.0 mm wide, recurved, acute, with spiny tip. Flowers solitary, in leaf axils. Calyx 5-lobed, 3-4 mm long, divided to near base, hispid. Corolla 4-7 mm long, white, with pale yellow or orange centers; throat hairy. Stamens inserted in upper part of corolla tube. Style slender, 1-2 mm long; stigma 2-lobed. Nutlets 2-2.5 mm long, glossy, smooth. 

Flowering from February to April.
calcareous and sandy soil.
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