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Saudi Arabia flora checklist
Periploca aphylla Decne.
Nomencalture
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Family: ApocynaceaeGenus: Periploca
SUMMARY
Periploca aphylla Dcne. in Jacquem., Voy. Inde. 109. t. 116. 1844. Boiss., Fl. Or. 4:50. 1879; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 4:12. 1883. Flora of Pakistan
Erect branched shrub c. 1.8-3.0 m tall, generally leafless, juice milky. Leaves (when present) 6-7 mm long, ovate-oblong, acute, thick, nerve obscure. Flowers in 1.2-2.5 cm long cymes on thick peduncles, fragrant. Bracts ovate, margin scarious, breaking off about the middle leaving the lower portion. Calyx lobes 2.5 mm long. Corolla greenish outside, dark purple within. Tube very short, lobes 2.2-6 mm long, oblong, obtuse, densely hairy near the tip. Corona lobes c. 6 mm long, filiform, glabrous, recurved at the apex. Follicles 5-10 cm x 5-6 mm, rigid woody, widely divergent, pointed. Seeds 6-6.5 mm long, oblong, compres¬sed, coma c. 2.5 cm long.
Fl. Per.: March-May.