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
