Annual or short-lived perennial herb ; up to 40 cm high with fibrous roots . Stems erect to ascending , decumbent at the base and there sometimes divided , unbranched or sparsely branched , sometimes rooting at the nodes , weak , pubescent . Leaves alternate to spirally arranged , 2-10 × 1 . 5-5 cm , ovate to elliptic-lanceolate , apex acute , margins ciliate , base tapering into a short petiole forming a sheath around the stem , pilose-puberulose . Inflorescences terminal , of cymes in a lax panicle , not enclosed in spathaceous bracts ; bract herbaceous . Flowers pale blue to lilac to white , ± 1 cm wide , pedicellate , sparsely pubescent , 7-9 mm and recurved in fruit ; sepals 3 , 2-3 mm ; petals 3 , lilac to white ; stamens 6 ; ovary covered with glandular hairs . Fruit capsule , ± 5 mm , ovoid , yellow-green , glossy , mostly 2-celled , with 3–1 seeds in each cell . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 4) .
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Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Commelina paniculata Vahl
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Not used traditionally. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
Ghazanfar, S. (2018). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.4: Hydrocharitaceae – Orchidaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 56). ISBN 9789492663153 ISSN 0779-2387. https://en.wikipedia.org https://casabio.org POWO (2023). "Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
