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Stipellula capensis
Also called Mediterranean Needlegrass, Cape Ricegrass
Stipellula capensis, the Mediterranean needle-grass, Cape rice grass, Mediterranean steppegrass or twisted-awned speargrass, is an annual grass from family Poaceae.
The species ranges from the Canary Islands and Madeira through the Mediterranean basin and Western Asia to the Caucasus, Arabian Peninsula, and India, and is also native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. It is native to the Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert ecoregion. In Persian it is called bahman and is probably the same plant which was used in the Persian festivity of bahmanagān.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stipellula capensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
