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  • COMMON NAME: airport grass
  • ARABIC: خزمزم
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Chloris barbata Sw.
  • SYNONYMS: Chloris longifolia Steud.
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Umm-Al-Quwain , Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Terrace (Silt)
  • TYPES: Perennial
https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/po/poaceae/chloris/chloris-barbata https://www.efloraofgandhinagar.in/grasses/chloris-barbata 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.

Tufted, perennial grass, up to 60 cm high, culms stout, geniculately ascending, branching upwards with internodes, leaf-blades 5-20 cm long, narrowly linear, flat; sheath smooth; ligule a narrow membrane. Inflorescence of 5-12 or more digitate, purplish spikes, each 4-8 cm long. Spikelets 3-4 flowered; lower glume about 1.5 mm long, upper about 2 mmlong, lowest lemma elliptic, ciliate along the margins and the keel, 3-4 awns, 5-7 mm long. 

Flowering from February to May-November.
Weed on cultivated irrigated land.
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