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  • COMMON NAME: Acridocarpus
  • ARABIC: قفص
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Acridocarpus orientalis Juss.
  • SYNONYMS: Anomalopterys orientalis (A.Juss.) Kuntze
  • FAMILY: MALPIGHIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Landscape (L) Cosmectis (C) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs Tree
  • HABITATS: Wadi Wadi Slope Slope (Rocky)
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Not grazed by livestock. The shrub is the foodplant of the caterpillar of the Giant Skipper butterfly Coeliades anchises.
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://identify.plantnet.org/sr/the-plant-list/species/Acridocarpus%20orientalis%20A.Juss./data https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:555356-1#synonyms V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.
Ornamental plant. Oil extracted from powdered seeds applied to head or joints to relieve pain. Also applied to skin as softener. Reddish hair of young growth was gathered, dried and powdered and mixed with water as a tanning agent and to treat inflammation of the udder in livestock.
Large shrub or small tree, 2-5 m tall, young stems tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, oblong-elliptic, 5-15 cm long and 2-6 cm broad. Young leaves pubescent to tomentose, reddish-brown; old leaves glabrous, green. Flowers aggregated in terminal racemes, with long, tomentose pedicels, 2-3 cm long. Sepals 5, free, reddish-brown, velvety pubescent, about 5 mm long. Stamens 10. Ovary 3-carpelled, one of them usually aborting, styles 3, one of them usually reduced as its carpel, free, with a minute papillate stigmas. Fruit a schizocarp, which splits into one-seeded and winged mericarps. Flowering from April to September.
Rocky regions.
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