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  • COMMON NAME: Stink-grass, grey love-grass.
  • ARABIC: فث، تيراب
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Eragrostis cilianensis (All.) Vign.
  • SYNONYMS: Poa cilianensis
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Dubai , Sharjah , Umm-Al-Quwain , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Fodder (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Gulley
  • 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://www.floraofqatar.com/eragrostis_cilianensis.htm https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1104599-2/general-information#uses Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. 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.
Used as fodder grass.
Annual grass, 5-45 cm high, with fasciculate, erect to decumbent, simple or branched culms, smooth and glabrous. Leaf-blades flat, up to 15 cm long, linear, with warty glands along the margins. Panicle 4-25 cm long, very dense of crowded spikelets. Spikelets set on short pedicels, 15-40 flowered. Glumes subequal, 1-3 nerved, 1.5-2.3 mm long, glandular on the keel. Lemma 2-2.8 mm long. Paleas persistent. Flowering in Spring.
Weed in gardens or along the moist places or hills or roadsides.
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