Tanoom

Conservation status:

Native

Description:

Growth form: Annual or Perennial herb. Flowering. Dec–May. Status: Native. Local. Also recorded: Kuwait, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Occasional in cultivated depressions, field margins and disturbed areas in C Qatar. Uses: Chrozophora species have been traditionally used in Arabia to produce dyes. Further details are given by Mandaville.