Fuirena ciliaris is a tufted grass-like or herbaceous plat that reaches up to 37 cm long with a short rhizome. Culms are 1-2 mm diameter, obtusely trigonous, grooved, and pubescent. Leaf blades are flat, pubescent; the lower ones are short or reduced; while the upper can reach up to 13 cm, and much wider than the culm. Leaf sheaths are pubescent, green, and then become yellowish. The inflorescence is composed of 2-3 partial inflorescences, each is 0.8-1.2 x 1.2-2 cm with 3-12 ovoid to cylindrical, blackish spikelets that reach up to 1.2 x 0.3 cm, each with up to 100 or more spirally arranged glumes. The fruit is an ovoid to obovoid, trigonous, smooth, yellowish nutlet.
Nile Valley North of Nubia (Location: Delta).
Egypt, tropical Africa to Australia.
Rice fields, moist depressions.
Annual or perennial
Height: to 37 cm
