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  • COMMON NAME: Rabbit foot
  • ARABIC: عكرش
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Aeluropus massauensis (Fresen.) Mattei
  • SYNONYMS: A. mucronate
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
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. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/34104809 https://eol.org/pages/2884951

A perennial grass, stout, more robust than the preseding, with thicker peduncles. Stems usually woody, either creeping, erect or climbing. Leaves pungent; ligules absent. Heads variable, but mostly globose, sometimes one-sided or not. Lemmas often mucronate. 

Flowering from March to May.
Saline habitats.