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  • COMMON NAME: Goat's Beard
  • ARABIC: لحية التيس
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Koelpinia linearis Pall.
  • SYNONYMS: Koelpinia latifolia, Lapsana koelpinia, Rhagadiolus koelpinia
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: The bristly fruits cling to fur, thus facilitating dispersion of the seeds.
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/koelpinia_linearis.htm M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.
Desert herb, annual, 10-35 cm high, puberulent or glabrous. Stems erect or ascending, dichotomously branching from the base. Leaves sessile, narrow, linear-filiform, acute, 3-10 cm long, 1-2 mm wide. Heads peduncled in the axils both at base and on the stems. Florets yellow, with 4-5 toothed ligules, a little longer than the involucre. Achenes narrow, with aspect of umbel-rays or stellately spreading and incurved, narrowly lanceolate, 10-20 mm long, furnished at back, with rows of hooked or barbed prickles. Pappus absent. Flowering from February to April.
Sandy or sandy-silts.
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