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  • COMMON NAME: Centropodia
  • ARABIC: قصبه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Centropodia forsskalii (Vahl) Cope
  • SYNONYMS: Asthenatherum forskalii, Danthonia forsskalii
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Fodder (F)
  • 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/centropodia_forsskalii.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.
Grazed by camels.
A small, loosely tufted, perennial grass, up to 35 cm high, with erect or decumbent, woolly culms. Leaf-blades 5-8 cm long, 3-6 mm wide, flat or rolled, linear, glaucous, hairy, with pungent tip. Ligule a rim of long hairs. Panicle dense, slender, 5-10 cm long, terminal, partly enclosed in the spathe-like-leaf-sheath. Spikelets yellowish, 6-9 mm long, with acuminate, subequal, glumes nerved and rounded at back. Lemma 3-4 mm long, bifid at apex, with tufts of hairs between the 9 nerves, awned 3-4 mm long. Anrhers oblong 0.7-1 mm long. Flowering from December to May.
Sandy hills, dunes and gravel plains.
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