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  • COMMON NAME: stoneseed
  • ARABIC: حلمه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Echiochilon persicum ( Burn. f. ) I.M. Johnst.
  • SYNONYMS: Echiochilon albidum
  • FAMILY: BORAGINACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
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/echiochilon_persicum.htm Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.

greyish, erect-ascending, loose dwarf shrublet, up to 40cm high, with many-branched and densely appressed-pubescent. Upper leaves alternate, opposite below, sessile, linear-elliptical, 3-8mm long, about 1.5 mm wide. Flowers solitary, axillary, subsessile, 5-8 mm long. Calyx 3-6 mm long, with linear-oblong lobes, hairy. Corolla exceeding the calyx, with whitish to cream spreading limb; the throat closed by yellowish hairs. Nutlets 2-3 mm long, rough or tubercled. 

Flowering from February to April.
Rocky and limestone places.
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