生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial herbs; rhizome short creeping; culms terete, 20-60 cm long.
• Leaves reduced to a few scale like, brownish sheaths at base of culm.
• Inflorescence pseudolateral, many flowered, lowest bract stem like, appearing as a continuation of culm, 10-20 cm long; flowers many, 2-2.5 mm long, inclusive of capsule; perianth-segments equal in length, acute; stamens 3, shorter than perianth.
• Capsules ovoid or ellipsoid; seeds obovoid, ca. 0.5 mm long.
• The stems are used for making a kind of mats.

分布

• 台灣 : Wet places from lowlands to high mountains, thoughout Taiwan.
• 世界 : Ussuri, mainland China, Korea, Japan and North America.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Shihting, Huang 2381; Tatungshan, Lee & Kao 3951. ILAN: Taipingshan, Hosokawa 2406. HSINCHU: Litunshan, Matuda 326. TAOYUAN: Nankan, Suzuki 598. NANTOU: Tsueifung, Wu 7118; Wushe, Matuda s. n. 15 Aug 1919. CHIAYI: Alishan, Chao & Kao 6219; Morrison, Hsu 9234. KAOHSIUNG: South East-West Highway, Huang 6575. TAITUNG: Kueihu, Hsu 3348. HUALIEN: Tausai, Suzuki 17717.

引用文獻

• KAO, Muh-Tsuen and DeVol, Charles E.; HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 147. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)