Slender to very robust tussocky perennial herb ; up to 10-40(-50) cm long with woolly roots , usually with sand adhering . Stems (culms) almost terete , glabrous . Leaves many , ± equaling the culms , often curving , sometimes rigid with involute margins ; leaf sheaths rather thin , hard , brownish or reddish , turns fibrous with age ; leaf blade 1-2 mm wide , linear , often rather thick , slightly scabrid on the margins , apex acute , sometimes folded as dry . Inflorescences simple or spherical clusters of generally pale spikelets ; spikelets 10–50-flowered , lanceolate , greyish green to greyish brown , ovoid , compressed or subterete ; glumes pale brown , concave , ovate , many-nerved , margins scarious . Fruits nutlet , dark brown to black , obovoid , surface finely reticulate , obscurely triangular , minutely papillose . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 4) .
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In Omani studies: Ghazanfar (2018) wrote that: "It is recorded to be grazed by camels, but I have seen that it is grazed only when there are no other palatable species present, or only the fresh shoots are grazed, otherwise largely left alone". (Ref. Flora of Oman; vol.4).
Ghazanfar, S. (2018). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.4: Hydrocharitaceae – Orchidaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 56). ISBN 9789492663153 ISSN 0779-2387. https://en.wikipedia.org Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. Pickering, H. Patzelt, A. (2008). Field Guide to the Wild Plants of Oman. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. ISBN 9781842461778. POWO (2023). "Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
