Hebrew: נשרן הדוחן, Arabic: رزية ناعمة
| Scientific name: | Piptatherum miliaceum (L.) Coss. | |
| Synonym name: | Oryzopsis miliacea (L.) Asch. & Schweinf. | |
| Common name: | Smilograss, Rice millet | |
| Hebrew name: | נשרן הדוחן | |
| Arabic name: | رزية ناعمة | |
| Family: | Graminea (Poaceae), Grass Family, משפחת הדגניים |
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| Life form: | Hemicryptophyte | |
| Stems: | 65-150 cm high; often branched, sometimes rooting at the nodes, wiry, glabrous or minutely scabrid; nodes glabrous | |
| Leaves: | Alternate, rosette, entire | |
| Inflorescence: | Panicle, open and sparse, 15-35cm long; pedicels (flower stalks) scabrid with hairs 0.05-0.1 mm long | |
| Flowers: | Lemma (the lower bract of the floret of a grass) elliptic, green, pale golden brown, smooth, glabrous; palea (the upper bract of the floret) with 2 indistinct veins | |
| Fruits / pods: | Caryopses | |
| Flowering Period: | February, March, April, May, June, July | |
| Habitat: | Batha, Phrygana | |
| Distribution: | Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes, Deserts and extreme deserts, Montane vegetation of Mt. Hermon | |
| Chorotype: | Mediterranean | |
| Summer shedding: | Perennating |
Derivation of the botanical name: Piptatherum, pipto, "to fall", and ather, "stalk". miliaceum, pertaining to millet; millet-like. Oryzopsis, from orysa for "rice" and opsis for "appearance" referring to its similar appearance to rice. The Hebrew name: נשרן, nasran, formed from נשר, nashar (=to fall out).
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