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  • COMMON NAME: Arabian drop seed grass
  • ARABIC: حاور (هاور)
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Sporobolus ioclados (Nees ex Trin.) Nees
  • SYNONYMS: Sporobolus arabicus Boiss.
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Umm-Al-Quwain , Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy Sabkha
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Not good grazing.
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://www.floraofqatar.com/sporobolus_ioclados.htm 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.
Highly salt tolerant.
Perennial grasses, up to 60 cm high. Culms many from woody stoloniferous base. Leaf-blades stiff, narrow, linear, 10-20 cm long, 2-3 mm broad, involute, pungent. Panicle pyramidal, 5-20 cm long. Spikelets 1-2.5 mm long, crowded, subsessile at the ends of the branches. Glumes unequal, the upper slightly shorter than the spikelets, and almost as long as or a little longer than the lemma. Grain subglobose. Flowering in Spring.
Coastal areas and around sabkha margins.
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