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  • COMMON NAME: Purple false brome
  • ARABIC: شعيره
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Brachypodium distachyon (L.) P.Beauv.
  • SYNONYMS: Trachynia distachya
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Gulley Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
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.floraofqatar.com/brachypodium_distachyon.htm https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=1137 Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.

Annual, glaucous, erect, sparingly pubescent grass 8-35 cm high, with solitary or geniculately ascending, fascicled culms. Leaf-blades flat, linear, acuminate, 5-10 cm long, with sheaths sparsely hairy; ligule membranous, finely ciliate along upper margin. Inflorescence composed of one or a few spikelets. Spikelets mostly with 10-18 flowers, 2-3 cm long or more, glaucous or pubescent. Glumes unequal, the lower 5-nerved, 4-6 mm long, the upper 7-nerved, 7-9 mm long; awns 10-15 mm long and much longer than lemmas, straight, anther less than 1.0 mm long. 

Flowering from February to April.
Dry stony hillsides or rocky limestone desert and plantations.
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