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  • COMMON NAME: Coastal grass
  • ARABIC: شعر البنات
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Sphenopus divaricatus (Gouan)Rchb.
  • SYNONYMS: Poa divaricata
  • 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://www.herbier.sesa-aude.fr/Sphenopus-divaricatus
A delicate, annual, with very slender culms, erect or geniculate at the base, often purplish, smooth and glabrous, 10-30 cm high, with dark nodes. Leaf-blade flat, short, convolute, acute, 3-6 cm long. Ligule membranous. Panicle spreading, branches in pairs at each node of the axis and showing further repeated dichotomous or trichotomous branching; branches capillary with clavate pedicels of the small spikelets. Lower glume minute, persistent. Lower pale scabrous at tip, obtuse, somewhat keeled. Flowering in Spring.
Alluvial, salty and dry calcareous soil.
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