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  • COMMON NAME: Memphis grass
  • ARABIC: شعيره
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Cutandia memphitica (Spreng.) Benth.
  • SYNONYMS: Cutandia dichotoma
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Sharjah , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Fodder (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
https://www.floraofqatar.com/cutandia_memphitica.htm Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.
Grazed by livestock.

Low annual grass, with many fascicled, purple-nodded culms, erect or ascending, 10-30 cm high, smooth and glabrous. Leaf-blades very narrow, folded, caducous. Panicle much branched, dichotomously divided. Spikelets 2-4 flowerd, 7-12 mm long; glumes and lemmas ending an a short pungent mucro. 

Flowering from February to April.
Sandy soil, gravel and gypsum.
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