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  • COMMON NAME: little lovegrass.
  • ARABIC: حلفا، فث
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Eragrostis minor Host
  • SYNONYMS: E. poaeoides
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • 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. http://flowers.la.coocan.jp/Poaceae/Eragrostis%20minor.htm
A tufted, annual grass, up to 40 cm high, with erect or ascending culms. Leaf-blades flat, lanceolate-acuminate, up to 12 cm long, 4 mm wide, glandular on the margins. Panicle very variable, open or rather dense, ovate, 4-20 cm long, 6-10 cm broad, with few-spiculate, patent branches. Spikelets 3-12 mm long, 1-2 mm wide of 6-20 or more flowered, greyish to purplish, seated on short pedicels. Glumes 1-3 nerved, subequal, 1-1.8 mm long, glandular or keel. Lemmas 1-2 mm long, glandular on keel. Pelas persistent. Flowering in Spring.
Waste places.
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