Alhagi maurorum Medik., it is an undershrub, up to 60-100 cm tall, glabrous or pubescent. Leaf simple, 10-25 mm long, 3-8 mm broad, obovate or elliptic-oblong, glabrous or pubescent, entire, apiculate; petiole c. 2 mm; stipules minute. Inflorescence lateral axillary racemes 1-5 cm long, ending in spine. Pedicel 1-3 mm, with 1-2 minute bracteoles. Calyx 2-2.5 mm, glabrous, teeth almost obsolete to triangular. Corolla 6-9 mm long, pink or reddish-violet. Fruit a cylindrical pod, 1-3 cm, fairly thick straight, dark brown with constrictions between seeds; seeds 3-8 kidney shaped, smooth and brown.
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