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  • COMMON NAME: Gophertail lovegrass
  • ARABIC: فث
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Eragrostis ciliaris (L.) R. Br.
  • SYNONYMS: Cynodon ciliaris
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Sharjah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Rocky) Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
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://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1156566-2/images https://www.floraofqatar.com/eragrostis_ciliaris.htm Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
A tufted, annual grass, 20-30 cm high. Leaf-blades linear, flat to rolled, 3-10 cm long. Panicle spicate, dense, woolly, cylindrical, 3-8 cm long 5-8 mm wide. Spikelets densely arranged, 5-12-flowered, sessile or subsessile. Glumes subequal, 0.6-1.2 mm long, acute. Lemmas 0.8-1.5 mm long, ciliated. Palea keels with long ciliated hairs. Stamens 2. Flowering in Spring.
Sandy or rocky places.
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