Aeluropus lagopoides
Aeluropus lagopoides (Linn.) Trin. ex Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 374. 1864. excl. syn.; Sultan & Stewart, Grasses W. Pak. 2:200. 1959; Bor in Towns., Guest & Al-Rawi, Fl. Iraq 9:423. 1968; Bor in Webbia 24:401-409. 1969; Bor in Rech.f., Fl. Iran. 70:419. 1970; Tzvelev, Poaceae URSS 621. Stace in Tutin et al., Fl. Eur. 5:256. 1980. 1976.
Synonyms:
- Aeluropus laevis Trin.
- Dactylis brevifolia Koen. ex Willd.
- Dactylis brevifolius (Koen. ex Wind.) Nees ex Steud.
- Dactylis lagopoides Linn.
- Dactylis repens Desf.
- Dactylis repens* (Desf.) Parl.
Rhizomatous perennial; culms up to 15 cm high, erect or creeping at the base. Leaf-blades narrow, spreading, subdistichous, up to 4 cm long, 2-3 mm wide, rigid, pungent, glabrous or pilose, margins scabrid. Panicle a globose, elliptic or oblong head of densely crowded spikelets, up to 2 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide. Spikelets 4-8-flowered, elliptic-oblong, 2.5-3.5 mm long, 2-2.5 mm wide. Glumes elliptic, unequal, villous, the lower 1-3-nerved, about 1.5 mm long, the upper 3-5-nerved, about 2 mm long; lemmas broadly elliptic, apiculate, 9-nerved, 2.4-2.8 mm long, villous; lowest lemmas sometimes empty; anthers 1.5 mm long
Northern Africa from Morocco to Somalia; Sicily and Cyprus through the Middle East to Central Asia and India.
The Farasan islands (Farasan Al-Kabir).
A plant of very arid places, especially salt-impregnated soils; sometimes on sandy.
Flowering Period: April - October.