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  • COMMON NAME: Finger Millet, Finger millet.
  • ARABIC: حمره
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.
  • SYNONYMS: Cynosurus coracanus L.
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Fodder (F) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Rare in the UAE. (Shwayb, Al-Ain).
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://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:399945-1#vernacular-names
bird seed, traditional medicine, fodder, thatching.

Annual, robust grass, with thick culms and large leaves. This species like Eleusine compressa but with thicker spikes, each 9-14 mm broad, and grain darker in coloured, minutely granulate, nearly spherical, about 1 mm in diameter. 

Flowering in Spring.
Plantations.
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