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  • COMMON NAME: slender buffel grass, African foxtail grass.
  • ARABIC: مخاضير، سبط
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Cenchrus pennisetiformis Steud.
  • SYNONYMS: Cenchrus aequiglumis
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Fodder (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual Perennial
https://www.floraofqatar.com/cenchrus_pennisetiformis.htm 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://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/po/poaceae/cenchrus/cenchrus-pennisetiformis 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.
Grazed by livestock.
Annual or rarely perennial grass, culms erect or geniculately ascending, 20-60 cm high, pubescent below the inflorescence and nodes. Leaf-blades 5-15, cm long linear, acute, folded or flat, softly pubescent. Raceme usually dense, cylindrical 3-14 cm long, pale-brown. Bristles connate into a cup, 1-3 mm long; inner bristles very slender, widened into a cup at the base, tapering to setiform tip, the outer bristles slender, numerous. Flowering in spring.
Sandy places, fields and orchards.
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