Biology:Dipterygium
Safrawi[1] is a much branched undershrub, up to 60 cm tall, hairless rarely glandular, woody at the base; branches slender, round, apparently leafless. Leaves are elliptic-oblong, 3-10 mm long, 2-3 mm broad (incl. 0.5-1 mm long leaf-stalk), somewhat fleshy, hairless (basal and lower leaves in young plants broader and with longer leaf-stalk). Flowers are minute, borne in lax ebracteate or bracteate racemes; flower-stalks 2-3 mm long, thread-like. Sepals are 1.5-2 mm long, 0.7 mm broad, ovate-oblong, pointed or tapering. Petals are 3-4 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, ovate-elliptic, tip blunt, yellowish. Stamens 6, alike, about as long as the petals; filaments simple, linear, anthers about 1 mm long, ovoid. Fruits are 3-6 mm long, 2.5-6 mm broad, Safrawi is found in Arabia, Egypt, Sudan and W. Pakistan and India.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Capparaceae |
| Genus: | Dipterygium Decne. |
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Dipterygium is a genus of flowering plant in the family Capparaceae.
References
Wikidata ☰ Q16726078 entry
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