Glossonema boveanum is a hairy canescent perennial herb that reaches up to 10-30 cm long. Stems are much-branched from the base. Leaves are 1-2 x 0.5-1.2 cm, broad, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, with cuneate or truncate base, acute or mucronate apex, and usually undulate margins. Flowers are with whitish-yellow corolla and deeply lobed calyx and arranged in sessile cymes. The fruit is a cylindrical or ovoid, acuminate, pubescent, echinate, and greenish follicle with flattened, ovate, brown seeds with a narrow white margin.
Arabian Desert, South Red Sea Coast, North Red Sea Coast, Gebel Elba.
Egypt, Palestine, Arabia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Mali.
Perennial
Height: 10-30 cm
