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  • COMMON NAME: incense grass
  • ARABIC: صخبر، إصخبر
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Cymbopogon parkeri Stapf
  • SYNONYMS: C. commutatus (Steud.) Stapf
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Fodder (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Leaves smell like lemon when crushed.
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/cymbopogon_commutatus.htm Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. 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.
Moderately salt tolerant, grazable plant. Grazed by animals. Several known uses in folk medicine.
Perennial grass, strongly aromatic, densely tufted, with culms, up to 70 cm high, with woolly or sparsely hairy basal sheaths. Leaf-blades linear or filiform, somewhat curled. Ligules scarious. Panicle erect, terminal, spatheate; racemes two, divericate. Lowest joint of the sessile raceme prominently swollen and hardened. Awn kneed with a spirally twisted column, exserted nearly as long as the spikelet. Flowering from February to May.
Gravel and compact sandy places.
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