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Saudi Arabia flora checklist
Glaucium arabicum Fresen.
Nomencalture
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Family: PapaveraceaeGenus: Glaucium
Species:
Glaucium arabicum Fresen.
SUMMARY
Glaucium arabicum Fresen♦
Perennial, densely villous, branched herbs up to 30cm tall. Leaves mostly in a basal rosette, up to 10cm long, pinnatiparted to pinnatisect, with terminal lobe larger than laterals; lobes coarsely dentate; cauline leaves much smaller, usually with 3 or less pairs of lobes, amplexicaul, sessile. Flowers yellow, orange, or red with purple center, peduncle much longer than the subtending leaves, large. Buds oblong-conical, nodding, up to 2cm long. Capsule terete, slender, horned up to 12cm long excluding 1-4cm long peduncle. Seeds many, ovoid-reniform, seed coat alveolate. Seeds nonarillate.