Zygophyllum album
Diagnostic description:
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Zygophyllales
Family: Zygophyllaceae
Habitat: Perennial, recumbent, or
ascending shrub, up to 60 cm tall.
Leaves: 2-foliolate on grooved petiole;leaflets oblong-obovate or elliptic, 4 - 9 x2 - 4 mm, acute.
Flowers: usually solitary, axillary, subsessile, 6 - 8 mm across.
Sepals: 5, ovate-oblong, 3 - 4 x 2 - 3 mm, hairy outside.
Petals: 5, obovate- spathulate, obtuse.
Fruit: fruiting pedicel shorter than capsule
Distribution: East and North Africa, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Yemen.
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