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  • COMMON NAME: turgid panic grass
  • ARABIC: تمام، ثمام، دخن
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Panicum turgidum Forssk.
  • SYNONYMS: Panicum frutescens
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Fodder (F) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Reported to be an important food plant for the black-crowned finch lark.
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_turgidum.htm#:~:text=Panicum%20turgidum%20is%20an%20old%20world%20clumping%20desert,miles%20south-west%20from%20Doha%2C%20Qatar%2C%20March%2012%2C%202010 Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. https://www.enature.qa/ar/specie/thamam/ V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. 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.
Highly salt tolerant, common forage naturalized and cultivated (Very important fodder grass). Used in folk medicine. Mandaville said that the Bedouins used it as food in times of famine. Grains used to be roasted for human consumption in times of drought. used as a wound dressing. Grass has the property of strengthening the cohesion of sand and can be used for stabilizing sand dunes.
Pale-green, shrubby, desert grass, growing in dense bushes, up to 1 meter high or more. Culms woody, densely branched, with clusters of brown, empty leaf-sheaths at the swollen nodes. Leaves usually reduced, 3-8 cm long, linear-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, flat or convolute. Panicle spreading, lax, pale, few-flowered, 2-10 cm long. spikelet's glabrous, ovoid, 3-4 mm long. Lower glume broadly ovate, 3/4 to almost as long as the spikelets, 5-9 nerved, upper glume 7-9 nerved. stigmas densely plumose. Flowering variable, usually from February to Jun.
Sandy and stony deserts, along the Gulf, it is often covers the whole coastal plain.
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