Heliotropium bacciferum
Perennial rigid shrub. Leaves sessile, short, c. 5 mm long.
,strongly revolute, 1.5 - 2 mm wide and peg-like
with prominent, white tubercles. Inflorescence of short,
terminal or usually paired cymes. Calyx more of
less tubular with 5 short rather unequal lobes, the outer facing
lobes with prominent tubercle-based
trichomes, the inner ‡ glabrous, persistent, spreading (and
showing unequal divisions of the lobes after
dehiscence of nutlets), c. 3 mm long. Corolla white; the tube a
little longer than the calyx lobes, hairy on
the outside, glabrous inside; corolla-lobes short. Anthers c. I mm
long, inserted near the middle of the
corolla. Stigma conical on a short, rather stout style and
reaching above middle of corolla tube. Nutlets
fused in two pairs, tubercled, wide margined or prominently
winged; the line of separation between the
•two nutlets in a pair missing or sometimes indistinctly apparent
Saudi Arabia: Eastern Province
Distribution: From Morocco to Pakistan
