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  • COMMON NAME: Common reed, ditch reed.
  • ARABIC: بوص، غاب، قصب، قصبه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud
  • SYNONYMS: P. communis
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Fodder (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Wadi Slope Gulley Pools
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Easily confused with Arundo donax, but smaller and does not have hairs on the axis of the inflorescence.
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. Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. https://www.floraofqatar.com/phragmites_australis.htm 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.
Extremely salt tolerant, up to seawater salinity. Grazable, used in folk medicine. Infusion of whole plant used to treat vomiting.
Glabrous, tall, perennial reed, 2-4 meter high. Stem erect, from a stout, creeping rootstock, leafy up to the panicle. Leaves flat, linear to lanceolate, tip subulate, 20-50 cm long, 1-3 cm wide. Ligule a rim of hairs. Panicle large, lax, one-sided, acute, in outline triangular, usually brownish, purple, branches slender, smooth, hairy, 25-50 cm long, up to 20 cm wide. Spikelets 10-15 mm long, 2-6-flowered, glume unequal, glabrous, lower ovate, acute, 3-4 mm long, upper ovate-lanceolate, acute, 5-7 mm long. Lemma narrowly lanceolate, long pointed, 9-10 mm longed, lowest lemma twice as long as upper glume. Hairs on rachilla, 7-9 mm long. Flowering all over the year.
Lakes, swamps, canal banks.
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