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Saudi Arabia flora checklist
Petrorhagia cretica (L.) P.W.Ball & Heywood
Nomencalture
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Family: CaryophyllaceaeGenus: Petrorhagia
Species:
Petrorhagia cretica (L.) P.W.Ball & Heywood
SUMMARY
♦ Petrorhagia cretica (L.) P.W.Ball & Heywood, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot. 3: 142 (1964).
Herbs annual. Stems erect simple or dichotomously branched, 17-25cm long, glandular-puberulent. Leaves sessile linear or linear-oblong; 10 - 26 x1-2.5mm, 3-nerved, acute, glabrous. Inflorescence lax panicle; Flowers pedicels as long as the calyx. Calyx obconical, 6-10mm, 5-ribbed, glandular hairy. Petals 5, white as long as the calyx, entire. Capsule as long as the or exceeding the calyx, dehiscing by 4 teeth or valves. Seeds black, dorsiventrally compressed, peltate