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  • COMMON NAME: Festuca calycina
  • ARABIC: شعيره
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Schismus arabicus Nees.
  • SYNONYMS: Schismus barbatus, Schismus calycinus, Schismus spectabilis.
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Sharjah , Ajman
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
https://www.floraofqatar.com/schismus_arabicus.htm 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.
Small, tufted, annual, 10-18 cm high. Culms many, slender, erect-ascending, geniculate at base, green, glabrous, smooth, nodes brown. Ligule about 1 mm long. Leaf-blades filiform, involute, with white, long hairs on the upper surface. Panicle 1-4 cm long. Lemmas 2-3 mm long, 2-lobed, hairy below, lobes acuminate. Flowering in Spring.
Sandy-gravely soil and plantations.
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