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Ochthochloa compressa (Forssk.) Hilu

Synonyms

Cynosurus ternatus, Eleusine arabica, Eleusine caespitosa, Eleusine compressa, Eleusine flagellifera, Eleusine stolonifera, Ochthochloa dactyloides, Panicum compressum

Common names

Hamrah, sineim, wire grass

Wire grass Ochthochloa compressa (local name Hamrah) on roadside of Khawzan Road. Qatar, February 20, 2016
Unnamed Road, Qatar

Spike of wire grass Ochthochloa compressa (local name Hamrah) on roadside of Khawzan Road. Qatar, February 20, 2016
Unnamed Road, Qatar

Spikelets of wire grass Ochthochloa compressa (local name Hamrah) on roadside of Khawzan Road. Qatar, February 20, 2016
Unnamed Road, Qatar

Close up of spikelets of wire grass Ochthochloa compressa (local name Hamrah) on roadside of Khawzan Road. Qatar, February 20, 2016
Unnamed Road, Qatar

Spikelets of wire grass Ochthochloa compressa (local name Hamrah) taken from roadside of Khawzan Road. Qatar, February 20, 2016

Spikelets of wire grass Ochthochloa compressa (local name Hamrah) taken from roadside of Khawzan Road. Qatar, February 20, 2016

Wire grass Ochthochloa compressa (local name Hamrah) on roadside of Sawda Natheel Road. Southern Qatar, February 26, 2016
سودا ناثيل, أم حوطة, الريان, قطر

Wire grass Ochthochloa compressa (local name Hamrah) with spikes on roadside of Sawda Natheel Road. Southern Qatar, February 26, 2016
سودا ناثيل, أم حوطة, الريان, قطر

Wire grass Ochthochloa compressa (local name Hamrah) beside Sawda Natheel Road. Southern Qatar, February 26, 2016
سودا ناثيل, أم حوطة, الريان, قطر

Wire grass Ochthochloa compressa (local name Hamrah) in sand on roadside of Sawda Natheel Road. Southern Qatar, February 26, 2016
سودا ناثيل, أم حوطة, الريان, قطر

Wire grass Ochthochloa compressa (local name Hamrah) on periphery of Green Circles (center-pivot irrigation) in Irkhaya (Irkaya) Farms. South-western Qatar, March 5, 2016
Unnamed Road, Qatar

Spikes of wire grass Ochthochloa compressa (local name Hamrah) on periphery of Green Circles (center-pivot irrigation) in Irkhaya (Irkaya) Farms. South-western Qatar, March 5, 2016
Unnamed Road, Qatar

Wire grass (Ochthochloa compressa, local name Hamrah) in windblown sand on roadside of Salwa Road in area of Khashem Al Nekhsh. Southern Qatar, March 18, 2016
Salwa Rd, Qatar

Wire grass (Ochthochloa compressa, local name Hamrah) with spikes in windblown sand on roadside of Salwa Road in area of Khashem Al Nekhsh. Southern Qatar, March 18, 2016
Salwa Rd, Qatar

Wire grass (Ochthochloa compressa, local name Hamrah) on roadside of Salwa Road in area of Khashem Al Nekhsh. Southern Qatar, March 18, 2016
Salwa Rd, Qatar

Wire grass Ochthochloa compressa (local name Hamrah) in a roadside depression near Salwa Road. Qatar, April 22, 2016
Salwa Rd, Qatar

Wire grass Ochthochloa compressa (local name Hamrah) in a wadi near Salwa Road, near Mukaynis. Qatar, April 22, 2016
Salwa Rd, Qatar

Links

• Flora of Qatar.
• Unknown plants or plants without names.
• Duplicate and extra pictures of plants.
• Earlier version of collection of plants.
• Other collections of pictures from Qatar: Lizards of Qatar, Cats of Qatar, Camels of Qatar, and Fish of Qatar.
• Picture archives.
• Home page of A. Sergeev.

Outside links

• Ochthochloa compressa from www.catalogueoflife.org
• Ekhlas M. M. Abdel Bary, The Flora of Qatar, Volume I: The Dicotyledons. Doha 2012
• Flora of Qatar, Volume II: The Monocotyledons
• Illustrated Checklist of the Flora of Qatar. John Norton et al. 2009
• Qatar eNature. Flora
• Ali Al-Rawi, Flowering plants of Kuwait, 1985
• Plants of Kuwait
• Flora of Saudi Arabia, Al-Qassim Region
• Flora of Eastern Saudi Arabia by Rain and Dust at Flickr
• Plants of South-Western Morocco
• Pictures from Qatar (Flickr/cpmkutty)
• Arabian plants by Gary Brown
• Flora of Israel

How the web page was created

• A list of plants with their common names was written using online sources and books.
• Web pages were written by a program consisting of several scripts.
• Full names, synonyms, and classification of plants were found online from catalogueoflife.org and theplantlist.org using a script.
• Pictures of plants were selected from a database using a script.
• This web page was written using a script.

Acknowledgements

QNHG (Qatar Natural History Group) and associated people, for a possibility to participate in their field excursions and to learn about local nature.