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Taxonomic information
Assessed taxon level
Species
Higher level taxonomic groupings
Plants
Flowering Plants
Location and scope
Specific locality or subnational name or regional name
United Arab Emirates (the)
Scope (of the Assessment)
National
Countries included within the scope of the assessment
United Arab Emirates (the)
Does the assessment cover a marine EEZ area(s)?
Not_assigned
Conservation Status
Assessed as
Least Concern
Criteria system used
IUCN
(see Assessment details)
Assessment rationale/justification
The distribution of this species in the UAE is uncertain, but it appears to be widespread in anthropogenic habitats and irrigated areas, although absent from the higher parts of the mountains. The origin of the species requires confirmation, but it is so uncertain at the global scale that we include the species in the UAE Red List. The species is assessed as Least Concern.
Assessment details
Assessors/contributors/reviewers listed
UAE National Red List Workshop
Criteria system used
IUCN
Reference for methods given
IUCN. 2012. IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1, Second edition. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. iv + 32pp pp. And IUCN. 2012. Guidelines for Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional and National Levels: Version 4.0. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iii + 41pp.
Further information
Endemism (according to assessment)
Endemic to region
Not assigned
Taxon distribution as listed in assessment
This species has been recorded on sand and in urban gardens in the UAE, as well as from offshore islands (Jongbloed et al. 2003). The species is absent from the Ru'us al-Jibal but is common in the Western Hajar Mountains of the Musandam Peninsula (Feulner 2011). RBG Edinburgh Herbarium holds records from <a href=""http://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00357529"">Al Ain</a> (Coll. L. Boulos and Al-Hasan, 1986; Al Ain Hotel garden and adjacent irrigated areas), <a href=""http://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00357530"">Khor Fakkan</a> (Coll. L. Boulos and Al-Hasan, 1986; hotel garden near sea shore), <a href=""http://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00357531"">Nachali Oasis</a>, Dubai (Coll. R.C. Hardwick, 1979; irrigated area), and <a href=""http://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00357537"">Abu Dhabi old town</a> (Coll. R.A. Western, 1982; abandoned camel stables). Plants of the World online (Board of Trustees, RBG Kew 2019) consider the native range of this species to be the tropical and subtropical Old World, from western Africa to East Asia. However other sources disagree; GRIN (2019) consider the origin of the species to be obscure but it to be widely naturalised in the tropics and subtropics. <a href=""https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/chloris_barbata.htm"">Weeds of Australia </a>consider it to most likely native to Central and South America or perhaps south-east Asia. Norton et al. (2009) considered it to be introduced to Qatar.
Is there a map available in assessment?
Yes
Habitat and systems
Ecological system type
Habitat
Habitat details as listed in assessment
This species has been recorded on sand and in gardens, also in offshore islands (Jongbloed et al. 2003). Norton et al. (2009) found the species to be frequent in cultivated farms, gardens and other irrigated land. MEW (2010) reported the species from ""roadsides, waste and cultivated places.""Chloris barbata is a more robust grass having spreading rhizomes and purplish spikes, which are more bristly than those of C. virgata (Jongbloed et al. 2003).
Threats and conservation measures listed
Threats listed in assessment
The species is potentially impacted by grazing and urbanisation, however, the species appears to be prevalent in anthropogenic habitats.
Publication
Allen, D.J., Westrip, J.R.S., Puttick, A., Harding, K.A., Hilton-Taylor, C. and Ali, H. 2021. UAE National Red List of Vascular Plants. Technical Report. Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, United Arab Emirates, Dubai.
