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Latin (Botanical) name: Francoeuria crispa (Forssk.) Cass. = Pulicaria crispa (Forssk.) Benth. et Hook. f.

Family: Compositae.

Common name: Francoeuria, Dathdath, Dithdath, Desdas, Sabat, Sabad, Sabt, Tagaar, Afrash, Gittiaat, Gettiaat, Gidai’ Githgaath, Gathgaath, Zibl el-Faar, Ghobbeira, Ghobbayra-a, Qaysoon, Qasoon, Qesoon, Kootkaat, Khanoof.

Origin: Egypt

Plant description:

COMPOSITAE Giseke. All, or at least the central flowers tubular. Tubuliflorac. Heads all of the same kind. Leaves unarmed. The same spineless but not forming a tube. Pappus otherwise. With radiating ligulate margin-flowers or heads discoid. Stem wingless, or (in a few genera) absent. Leaves alternate. Pappus of hairs. With yellow or no ray-flowers. Pappus of simple hairs. Involucre not scarious, translucent. Taller. Flowers bright yellow. Pappus without cup. Shrubby. Heads discoid or at least appearing so. Leaves crisped. FRANCOEURIA Cass. A genus close to Pulicaria, but differing in its pappus which is not double with a scarious cup outside, but consists only of bristles which are subplumosely scabrous above.

FRANCOEURIA CRISPA (Forssk.) Cass. (= Pulicaria crispa (Forssk.) Benth. et Hook. f.) : A bushy desert plant, often growing in cushion-shape. Leaves of various appearance, on juvenile shoots long and white-woolly, on adult branches minute, green. Heads yellow, 5 mm. across appearing discoid because of its very short ray-florets. Achenes glabrous. (Frut.). In sandy places.

Source: STUDENTS’ FLORA OF EGYPT second edition, by VIVI TÄCKHOLM, D. Sc. (Stockholm) Professor of Systematic Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Published by Cairo University. Printed by COOPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY Beirut, 1974.

Propagation: Fruits (seeds) and cutting, perennial bushy shrub in Upper Egypt.

Similar Species:

Pulicaria arabica (L.) Cass.

v. demissa Boiss.

Pulicaria undulata (L.) Kostel.

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