Panicum turgidum Forssk.  

Panicum turgidum Forssk

perennial desert grass, growing in dense tangled bushes up to 1 m. high or more, culms hard, woody, reed-like, densely brown empty leaf sheaths at swollen nodes. Root lets felty, often coverd with adherent sand. thus of corky appearance, branches clustered. arising from the nodes and covered at their bases with the clusters of leaf-sheaths. Panicle pale، lax, few-flowered only species with almost equal glumes, abundant in sandy deserts