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  • COMMON NAME: Running grass
  • ARABIC: نسيلا
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Brachiaria reptans (L.) C.A.Gardner & C.E.Hubb.
  • SYNONYMS: Brachiaria balansae Henrard
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Rare in the UAE. (Al-Ain). Easily confused with the more common Echinochloa colona.
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://portal.wiktrop.org/species/show/43 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.

Annual grass, up to 50 cm high. Culms ascending or decumbent from a creeping rooting base. Leaf-blades lanceolate, 2-8 cm long, 3-14 mm wide, with cordate, ciliate-margined base. Panicle 2-6 cm long, consisting of 3-12 spreading loose, 2-3 cm long false spikes. Spikelets 1.5-2.2 mm long elliptic, glabrous, acute. Lower glume only 1/4 or less than 1/4 the length of the spikelets, hyaline, clasping, truncate. Upper lemma rugose, subacute. 

Flowering in spring.
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