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  • COMMON NAME: plumose triple awned grass
  • ARABIC: نصي، صمعه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Stipagrostis plumosa (L.) Munro ex T. Anders.
  • SYNONYMS: Aristida Plumosa
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Fodder (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
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:423918-1/images 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.
Densely tufted, perennial grasses. Culms slender, thin, green, flexible, mostly 2-3-nodded, erect, shortly geniculate, 15-40 cm high, scabridulous, lower sheaths, nodes, internodes white-lanose, later glabrescent; nodes brownish, glabrous. Ligule a ciliate rim. Leaf-blades 4-10 cm long, about 1 mm wide, convolute, filiform, flexous, often curved. Inflorescence a panicle, up to 15 cm long. Glumes subequal, glabrous, lateral branches of the awn naked, the central plumose-ciliate in the upper 2\3rd, and 2.5-5.5 cm long. This species exists with many varieties that need more studies. Flowering in Spring.
Desert plant, sandy places.
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