Schouwia purpurea
General description:
Annual, glabrous, branched herbs. Leaves thick leathery, alternate, lower petiolate, upper sessile, amplexicaul, usually
ovate, entire or undulate or sinuately crenate. Flower in long or short terminal racemes
Biology:
Sepals c. 4 mm long, inner
sepals saccate. Petals white, pink or purple, up to c. 7 (-10) mm long. Stigma with decurrent carpidial lobes. Fruit
strongly compressed, 2-membered silicula; lower member subcircular to broadly ovate-elliptical
Arabic name : Boqal-al-Jinn;Mohad:Namnam
بقل الجن-مهد-نمنم
Size:
as long as wide
longer than wide, up to c. 22 - 25 x 20-20 mm, narrowly winged, upper member a tapering beak up to c. 5 mm long.
banqabrw stom ed EM 20
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