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  • COMMON NAME: Bearded Ryegrass, Ray grass.
  • ARABIC: هيبان، زيوان
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Lolium temulentum L.
  • SYNONYMS: Craepalia temulenta (L.) Schrank, Festuca temulenta (L.) J.P.Sm. & Columbus
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Gulley
  • 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:407516-1#synonyms
An annual, with tufted, rarely solitary, thick and stiff culms 20-40-90 cm high. Leaf-blades auricled at the base, linear-acuminate, 10-30 cm long, 2-10 mm wide. Ligule truncate or obtuse, spikes erect, 10-30 cm long, rigid. Spikelets 10-18 mm long. Upper glumes longer than the spikelets, with 7-9 nerved. Lemmas 6-8 mm long, usually weakly awned, becoming swollen, turgid and hard at maturity. Flowering from March to May.
Hillsides and roadsides.
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