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  • COMMON NAME: Round leafed Rothe
  • ARABIC: فريط، خريط
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Salsola drummondii Ulbrich
  • SYNONYMS: Salsola obpyrifolia
  • FAMILY: AMARANTHACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs Succulent
  • HABITATS: Sandy Sabkha
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Common, especially around Al-Ain.
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/salsola_drummondii.htm

Low shrub or shrublet up to 70 cm high. Stems ascending or erect glabrous, youngest branches whitish, becoming brown and knotty below. Leaves mostly alternate, fleshy, sessile, obovoid or short clib-shaped, 2-8 mm long. bracts fleshy concave above. Flowers in lateral and terminal spikes 2-8 cm long and 0.4-0.8 cm wide, fruiting perianth 5-7 mm in diameter including wings. Wings inserted near tip of the perianth lobes, imbricate, suborbicular more or less equal with rose or straw-colored.  

Flowering from October to December.
saline places near coastal regions and sabkha.
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