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  • COMMON NAME: Blue bushman grass
  • ARABIC: نصي
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Stipagrostis hirtigluma (Trin. & Rupr.) de Winter
  • SYNONYMS: Aristida hirtigluma
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:423902-1/images 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. Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
Annual or short-lived perennial, tufted grass, 30-50 cm high. Culmes 2-3-nodded, often branched. Leaves mostly basal; leaf-blades rolled or flat, 3-15 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, linear-filiform. Ligule a short, ciliate rim. Panicle 10-20 cm long, branched. Spikelets 8-12 mm long. Glumes nearly unequal, pubescent, 10-12 mm long. Lemma 3-4 mm long, villous at base of the callus. Central awn up to 50 mm long, naked or sparingly hairy in the basal part, lateral awns up to 12 mm long; common stalk twisted and usually hairy below the joint of the side-bristles. Flowering from February to April.
Desert plant on sandy-gravely soil.
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