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  • COMMON NAME: signalgrass
  • ARABIC: نسيلا
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf.
  • SYNONYMS: Panicum ramosum L.
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Rare in the UAE. (Al-Ain).
https://efloraofindia.com/2011/04/10/urochloa-ramosa/ 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.

A loosely tufted, annual grass, 10-50 cm high. Leaf-blades pubescent, linear-lanceolate 4-12 cm long, 4-13 mm wide. Inflorescence of many racemes, each 1-6 cm long, with few branchlets at the base; spikelets borne singly or paired, appressed to the rachi on pedicels shorter than the spikelets. Spikelets elliptic, 2.5-3.5 mm long, glabrous or pubescent, acute, light green. 

Flowering in spring.
Weed in waste fields.
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