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  • COMMON NAME: Goldentop grass
  • ARABIC: حشيش الثينم
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Lamarckia aurea (L.) Moench.
  • SYNONYMS: Achyrodes aureum, Chrysurus aureus, Chrysurus cynosuroides, Cynosurus aureus.
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Gulley Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • 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:406803-1#synonyms
A tufted, annual grass, 5-30 cm high, glabrous. Leaf-blades flat, 2-10 cm long or more, 1-8 mm wide. Ligule membranous, about 8 mm long. Panicle 2-8 cm long, 1-2 cm broad, bearing dimorphic florets in groups of 2-5 and falling off as clusters of 2-5 spikelets, and with dark-green, shortly villous pedicels. Sterile spikelets 6-8 mm long, with 8-12 distichous, imbricate, ovate lemmas; glumes linear-lanceolate, 3-3.5 mm long. Fertile spikelets with linear-lanceolate, glumes 3-4 mm long and ovate. Lemma 2-2.5 mm long, bifid at apex, with 6-10 mm long awn, from sinus. Sterile rudiment about 0.7 mm long, its awn mostly shorter than that of fertile lemma, 4-7 mm long, or absent. Flowering in Spring.
Mountain slopes, hillsides and rocky places.
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