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  • COMMON NAME: Horseshoe Vetch
  • ARABIC: أم قرين ، البقوليان ، جليجان ، جيجي ، البقيلاني
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Hippocrepis unisiliquosa L.
  • SYNONYMS: Ferrum-equinum unisiliquosum (L.) Medik.
  • FAMILY: FABACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
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. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:498396-1/images
Annual, stems much branched from base, slender, smooth, spreading or erect, up to 20 cm. Leaves with 6-14 leaflets (one terminal), 0.1-0.4* 0.5-1.2 cm, blunt notched tips. Flowers yellow without stalks, 1 or rarely 2 in leaf nodes. Pods curved, flattened, 0.5*2-4 cm, constricted into 5-12 segments, somewhat hairy. Flowering from February to April.
Fallow fields in mountains.
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