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  • COMMON NAME: Artal
  • ARABIC: جرد
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Gymnocarpos decander Forssk.
  • SYNONYMS: Trianthema fruticosum Vahl
  • FAMILY: CARYOPHYLLACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Fodder (F) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs Succulent
  • HABITATS: Wadi Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP). Bracts remain on plant after flowering like small reddish stars.
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://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:434754-1 Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. 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.
fuel wood and feed for grazing.

subshrub, mostly glabrous, 10-50 cm high. stems with greyish-white bark, and intricately branched. Leaves 4-10 mm long, 1-2 mmm wide, subsessile, teretish, linear, fleshy; stipules small, ciliolate. Flowers in short-oeduncled, pubescent. Bract stipule-like much shorter than calyx. Calyx 5-7 mm long, pruinose to hairy, lobes linear, oblong, reddish, with scarious margins. Petals filiform or absent, more or less as long as calyx. Utricle included in calyx tube. 

Flowering from January to April.
wadis, mountains, stony slopes and limestone.
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