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  • COMMON NAME: finger grass, crab grass.
  • ARABIC: دفره، ثيل، دخنه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop.
  • SYNONYMS: Dactilon sanguinale (L.) Vill., Panicum sanguinale L., Paspalum sanguinale (L.) Lam., Syntherisma sanguinalis (L.) Dulac
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Fodder (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
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:399115-1/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.
Grazed by livestock.
Annual grass, with culms, 30-70 cm high, erect or geniculate at the base, often rooting at the lower nodes. Leaf-blades linear-acuminate, 10-20 cm long, 5-10 mm wide, sometimes undulate or repand at margins; sheaths covered below, with a dense hirsute of bulbous base; ligule scarious. Inflorescence mostly 2-6 flexible, spicate, racemes up to 10 cm long, arranged digitately. Spikelets 2-4 mm long, acute, hairy or glabrous, lower lemma with minute, glassy, scabridous on the nerves, at least near the tip. Flowering from February to October.
Farms and orchard.
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