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  • COMMON NAME: Ravenna grass
  • ARABIC: قصب، بوص
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Saccharum ravennae (L.) Murr.
  • SYNONYMS: Erianthus ravennae, Tripidium ravennae.
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Fodder (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
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:77075505-1#synonyms 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.
Often found grazed to the ground.
Robust, erect, perennial grasses, with stout, strongly ribbed glabrous, culms, up to 3 meters. Leaf-blade flat, 50-90 cm long, 5-25 mm wide. Panicle large, 20-60 cm long, more or less dense, lobed, internodes and pedicels hirsute, greyish-white. Spikelets 4-6 mm long. Glumes equal to subequal, lanceolate, acute, greenish to purplish, lower one alternate, hirsute on back or glabrous, or with a few long hairs near the base. Lemmas hyaline, upper produced into a terminal awn, 3-9 mm long, exserted beyond the glumes. Flowering from September to March.
Swampy places and canals.
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