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  • COMMON NAME: Featherfinger grass
  • ARABIC: خزمزم
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Chloris virgata Sw.
  • SYNONYMS: Rabdochloa virgata
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ajman , Umm-Al-Quwain , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Terrace (Silt) Wadi Gulley Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual Perennial
  • REMARKS: Chloris barbata is more robust grass with spreading rhizomes and purplish spikes that are more bristly than those of C. virgata. Spikelets have 3-4 flowers, 3 awns up to 0.7 cm long. Honey bees nectar plants (only pollen).
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. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:396063-1#synonyms V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Honey nectar plants. It is used as animal food and a medicine, has environmental uses and for food.
Annual, stems smooth with dark nodes, erect or spreading up to 50(-100) cm. Leaves flat, 0.2-0.6*30 cm, hairy at base, tapering to pointed tip. Inflorescence terminal, consisting of 4-12 brown, semi-erect, finger-like spikes, each 2-10 cm long. Spikelets in 2 dense rows, each spikelet with 2-3 flowers, two with bristle-like appendages (awns), 0.5-1.2 cm long. Flowering from March-May.
Disturbed soil, plantations and gardens.
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