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  • COMMON NAME: rock rose, sun rose.
  • ARABIC: رجروج
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Helianthemum kahiricum Delile.
  • SYNONYMS: Helianthemum cahiricum
  • FAMILY: CISTACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Gulley Slope (Rocky) Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
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/helianthemum_kahiricum.htm https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271227715_Prospects_of_increasing_the_presence_of_Helianthemum_kahiricum_Dell_pastoral_North_African_plant_by_means_of_micropropagation#:~:text=Helianthemum%20kahiricum%20has%20great%20potential%20in%20forage%2C%20in,because%20of%20overgrazing%20abuse%20and%20increasing%20human%20disturbance.
halting desert encroachment and stabilizing sand dunes.

Perennial, suffruticose. Stem grey with many branches from base, up to 30 cm high, mostly coverd with tomentose-stellate hairs. Leaves simple, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, revolute-margined 5-10 mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide; subsessile; stipules minute. Inflorescence rather dense, hairy, 1-sided, with 5-12 flowers. Bract shorter than pedicels. Pedicels slender, pendulous, 2-6 mm long and elongated in fruit, sepals 5, hairy, the outer 2 bract-like about 2 mm long, the inner oblong-lanceolate 4-6 mm long and 2 mm wide. Petals 5, yellow, 4-7 mm long. Capsule 4-5 mm long, ovoid, 3-valved and densely pubescent towards the apex. Seeds angular, small, compressed, yellowish-brown, 1-1.5 mm long. 

Flowering from February to April.
Rocky hillsides, calcareous places in sandy desert.
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