esparto grass

noun

esparto grass

noun

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Esparto.

These habitats were most evident on the Iberian Peninsula where, by 15 million years ago, members of the thorn-rose genus (Neurada), esparto grass, honey mesquite and nitre bush (Nitraria) flourished in arid shrublands.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 97:

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