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Filago desertorum Pomel

Synonyms

Filago germanica, Filago spathulata

Common names

Alj al barr, alj al ghazal, gutaina, Quteyna

My notes

Plants found near Ziziphus bushes in Al Mardiya - Wasit area look similar to Filago prolifera from a book "The flora of Qatar" by Ekhlas M. M. Abdel Bary (Qatar University, 2012).

Blooming Filago desertorum (local name quTeyna) in desert of Harrarah, 40 miles south-west from Doha. Qatar, March 2, 2012
Salwa Rd, Qatar

Filago desertorum (local name quTeyna) in southern Qatar, February 14, 2014
خط الوكير، Qatar

Filago desertorum (local name quTeyna) with flowers in southern Qatar, February 14, 2014
خط الوكير، Qatar

Filago desertorum (local name quTeyna) in sand near Trainah in southern Qatar, February 14, 2014
خط الوكير، Qatar

Filago desertorum (local name quTeyna) growing in sand near Trainah in southern Qatar, February 14, 2014
خط الوكير، Qatar

Desert plant Filago desertorum (local name quTeyna) growing in sand near Trainah in southern Qatar, February 14, 2014
خط الوكير، Qatar

Woolly desert plant Filago desertorum (local name quTeyna) growing in sand near Trainah in southern Qatar, February 14, 2014
خط الوكير، Qatar

Filago desertorum (local name quTeyna) in sand near Trainah in southern Qatar, February 14, 2014
خط الوكير، Qatar

Desert plant Filago desertorum (local name quTeyna) in sand near Trainah in southern Qatar, February 14, 2014
خط الوكير، Qatar

Filago desertorum (local name quTeyna) in sand near Trainah in southern Qatar, February 14, 2014
خط الوكير، Qatar

Filago desertorum (local name quTeyna) in area of Ras Laffan farms. Northern Qatar, February 28, 2014
Unnamed Road, Qatar

Pigmy cudweed Filago desertorum or may be F. prolifera found under Ziziphus bush in Al Mardiya - Wasit area. Northern Qatar, February 13, 2016
Unnamed Road, Qatar

Links

• Flora of Qatar.
• Unknown plants or plants without names.
• Duplicate and extra pictures of plants.
• Earlier version of collection of plants.
• Other collections of pictures from Qatar: Lizards of Qatar, Cats of Qatar, Camels of Qatar, and Fish of Qatar.
• Picture archives.
• Home page of A. Sergeev.

Outside links

• Filago desertorum from www.catalogueoflife.org
• Ekhlas M. M. Abdel Bary, The Flora of Qatar, Volume I: The Dicotyledons. Doha 2012
• Flora of Qatar, Volume II: The Monocotyledons
• Illustrated Checklist of the Flora of Qatar. John Norton et al. 2009
• Qatar eNature. Flora
• Ali Al-Rawi, Flowering plants of Kuwait, 1985
• Plants of Kuwait
• Flora of Saudi Arabia, Al-Qassim Region
• Flora of Eastern Saudi Arabia by Rain and Dust at Flickr
• Plants of South-Western Morocco
• Pictures from Qatar (Flickr/cpmkutty)
• Arabian plants by Gary Brown
• Flora of Israel

How the web page was created

• A list of plants with their common names was written using online sources and books.
• Web pages were written by a program consisting of several scripts.
• Full names, synonyms, and classification of plants were found online from catalogueoflife.org and theplantlist.org using a script.
• Pictures of plants were selected from a database using a script.
• This web page was written using a script.

Acknowledgements

QNHG (Qatar Natural History Group) and associated people, for a possibility to participate in their field excursions and to learn about local nature.