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  • COMMON NAME: Coelachyrum
  • ARABIC: عياله
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Coelachyrum brevifolium Hochst. & Steudel ex Nees
  • SYNONYMS: Ceolochloa brevifolia, Eragrostis ceolachyrum.
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah
  • 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.
Pale-green, annual, tufted grasses, up to 25 cm high, with flat, lanceolate, acute, glabrous leaf-blades, 3-4 cm long, 4-6 mm broad. Culms arising from the base, with dark-nodes. Inflorescence of several spicate, dense, one-sided racemes, 1.5-2.5 cm long. Spikelets 4-6-flowered. Glumes subequal, with 3, dark-green nerved, 1-1.5 mm long, Lemmas pubescent, 3-nerved, 1.5-2 mm long. Grains of ear-shape, wrinkled and deeply excavated. Flowering from December to April.
Sandy soil.