Please Open The Website From Desktop

Close
  • COMMON NAME: Stipagrostis
  • ARABIC: نصي
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Stipagrostis obtusa (Del.) Nees
  • SYNONYMS: Aristida obtusa
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Gulley Slope (Rocky)
  • 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://www.floraofqatar.com/stipagrostis_obtusa.htm
Erect, densely tufted, perennial grass, up to 35 cm high. Culm-internodes glabrous, 1-nodded, mostly dark-purplish. Leaf-blades short, narrow, circinate and filiform, crowded at base of plant, up to 6 cm long. Sheaths hairy mouth. Panicle 4-12 cm long. Glumes subequal, glabrous. Central awn 20-25 mm long, feathery in the upper half, purplish, lateral awns up to 12 mm long. Flowering in Spring.
Rocky places.
1 / 3
2 / 3
3 / 3