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  • COMMON NAME: Snoutbean
  • ARABIC: بقل
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Rhynchosia schimperi Hokest. ex Boiss.
  • FAMILY: FABACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Fodder (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs Careeper
  • HABITATS: Terrace Wadi Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
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.gbif.org/uk/occurrence/3860150428 Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Moderately salt tolerant, grazable forage tree, used in folk medicine.
Gray, perennial subshrub, velutinous, up to 60 cm high. Stems erect, much branched, with long trailing side branches. Leaves trifoliate, on short stalks; lateral leaflets ovate, entire, terminal, cuneate-obovate or truncate, often retuse, 1-1.5 cm in diameter. Flowers, 1-few, axillary, on short-pedicelled, about 2 mm long, teeth unequal. Corolla yellow; standard 5-7 mm long, externally pilose; wing and keel smaller. Pod 1.5-2.5 cm long, woolly, obovate-oblong, tapering at both ends, 2-seeded. Seeds globular, black. Flowering from March to July.
Sandy soil, wadis and roadsides.
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