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  • COMMON NAME: alsola setifera
  • ARABIC: شعران، حمض
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Anabasis setifera Moq.
  • SYNONYMS: Anabasis annua
  • FAMILY: CHENOPODIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs Succulent
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: this is one of the first plants to colonize coastal landfills.
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/anabasis_setifera.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.

A dwarf, glabrous, pale-green, shrub, up to 45 cm high. stem divaricately branching from the base; branches many, erect, or ascending, fleshy, 4-angled. Leaves 5-10 mm long and 2-5 mm wide, succlent, cylindrical-club-shaped, furrowed above, ending in a deciduous spine. Flowers in clusters of 3-7 in upper axils, arranged in spikes. Bracts minute, membranous, ciliate. Staminodes subquadrate. Fruiting perianth 0.4-0.6 cm with 3-5 wings, obovate, hyaline, nearly entire, more or less unequal, whitish-yellow. Seed erect, vertical. 

Flowering from October to January.
salt range and coastal saline regions.
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