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  • COMMON NAME: Aucher
  • ARABIC: طرطير
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Sphaerocoma aucheri Boiss.
  • SYNONYMS: Sphaerocoma hookeri subsp. aucheri. ( Boiss.)
  • FAMILY: CARYOPHYLLACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Common on coastal regions of the UAE.
Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. 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.
Highly salt tolerant.

subshrub up to 65 cm high, in bushy form with thick woody stem. branches dence, knotted, white-grey to blue-green. Leaves in fascicles on older stems, linear-terete, 4-10 mm long, more or less fleshy with rounded or pointed tips. Inflorescences capitate, 1 cm across on short peduncles. Bracts greenish-brown with scarious margins, mucronate-aristate. Sepals 2-2.5 mm long, similar to bracts and the sepals of sterile flowers without elongate awns. Petals white, slightly shorter than sepals. Stamens 5. Fruit 1- seeded, indehiscent.  

Flowering from February to June.
sandy soil.