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  • COMMON NAME: Bblue panicgrass, Blu panic, Gigant panic grass.
  • ARABIC: سيسون
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Panicum antidotale Retz.
  • SYNONYMS: Panicum brevifoliu
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • CATEGORIES: Fodder (F) Landscape (L)
  • 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.floraofqatar.com/panicum_antidotale.htm 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.
Fodder grass.

A tall, perennial grass, arising from a creeping, often stout and thick root-stock. Culms erect or ascending, up to 1.5 meter high, solid, woody, terete, smooth, glossy below, thickened at nodes. Leaves 10-50 cm long, 0.5-15 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, flat, glabrous on both surface; sheaths 3-7 cm long, smooth, striate. Ligule short membranous. Panicles 10-25 cm long, effuse, pyramidal, branches usually fascicled. Spikelets laxly crowded, up to 3 mm long, ovoid, glabrous. Lower glume ovate, membranous, with hyaline margins, 3-5 nerved, half as long as spikelets; upper glume with broad hyaline margins, 7-9-nerved; lower lemma 7-9-nerved with well developed palea; upper lemma smooth, glossy. 

Flowering from February to April.
sandy soil and roadsides.
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