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  • COMMON NAME: bent spikerush, Canada spikesedge.
  • ARABIC: نبتة المسامير
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Eleocharis geniculata (L.) Roem. & Schultes
  • SYNONYMS: Bulbostylis geniculatus (L.) Steven
  • FAMILY: CYPERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Pools
  • TYPES: Annual
https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/Eleocharis.geniculata https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1029981-2/general-information#uses V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Tufted annual with crowded stems; stems 5–40 cm long and 0.6–1.2 mm thick, terete or angular. Sheath grey above, purple below, ending in a short triangular acute lobe with thinner hyaline margin. Spikelet shortly ovate to almost globose, usually 3–4 x 2.5–3.5 mm, 20–50-flowered. Glumes 2–3 mm long, greyish below, brown above, rounded at the apex, margin usually somewhat frayed and without a distinct hyaline border. Perianth-bristles 5–7, glabrous, longer than the nutlet. Stamens 1–3. Style with 2 stigmas. Nutlet c. 0.8 x 0.6 mm, obovate, biconvex, blackish-purple, smooth and shiny; appendage small, low-conical, pallid. Flowering in spring.
Found in pools and wet places in wadis.
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