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Latin (Botanical) name: Pulicaria arabica (L.) Cass.

Family: Compositae.

Common name: Pulicaria, Abu ain safra, Howeimda, Detooth, Deithooth, Ra’raa’(ayyoob).

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 at base surrounded by a small scarious cup. PULICARIA Gaertn. Involucrai-scales linear, densely imbricated. Flowers yellow, inner ones tubular, bisexual ; outer ones ligulate female, the latter sometimes long and radiating. Pappus double, outside of a short scarious cup, inside of fragile scabrous hairs. Leaves sessile. Not so (most of the leaves enrolled to needle-shape). Leaf-margin flat. Leaves rarely over 5 cm. long, hairs not tubercle-based. PULICARIA ARABICA (L.) Cass. : A slender, stiff annual with usually strawcoloured, glossy branches. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, on the shoots frequently silky. Heads small. (Ann.).

v. demissa Boiss. : Flowers more numerous than in the type on short, clustered branches.

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, annual in Upper Egypt.

Similar Species:

Pulicaria crispa (Forssk.) Benth. et Hook. f. = Francoeuria crispa (Forssk.) Cass.

Pulicaria undulata (L.) Kostel.

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