Vern.: Phóg, Phok.

Profusely branched, glabrous shrub with whitish to pale brownish bark, up to 1.5 m tall. Leaves very scanty, sessile, linear caducous, 7-15 mm long; ochreae c. 1 mm long. Flowers pedicellate, pedicel 3-8 mm long, slightly accrescent in fruit, articulate in the centre or near the base, Perianth segments 3-4 mm long, 2-3 mm broad, broadly oblong, white, reflexed in fruit. Stamens shroter than or equalling perianth. Fruit 12-17 mm long, 10-14 mm broad, densely setose, setae 2-3 times or more dichotomously branched, dilated at the base, arising on 4 pairs of longitudinal wings. Nut oblong, slightly coiled, winged, wings 1-2 mm broad.

Fl. Per.: April-June.

Type: Habitat in monte Ararat, Armenia, Tournefort.

A fairly common plant of sand dunes in Southern Baluchistan and Trans-Indus plains. The wood is chiefly used as fuel. The flowers are also eaten in Sindh; Distribution: Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, Palestine and Syria.