生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennials; culm densely tufted, rhizome present, erect, 30-60 cm tall, more or less pubescent below inflorescence, base thickly clothed with woolly remains of old sheath of leaf; ligule membranaceous, fringed, ca. 0.4 mm long.
• Blades linear, 10-30 cm long, 3-7 mm wide.
• Racemes mostly 2, sometimes 3 or 4, 3-13 cm long, subdigitately arranged; rachis slender, villous, 3-angled. Spikelets pedicellate, usually paired on one side, ovate-lanceolate, 5-7 mm long, pale or brownish; lower glume ca. 1/2 as long as spikelet, 3-veined, mucronate or awn-tipped; upper glume 5-veined, widely winged, awn-tipped, densely ciliate, hairs finally widely spreading along margins; lower lemma as long as upper glume but slightly firmer, awnless, often sparingly ciliolate along margins, enclosing a short hyaline, cleft palea; upper lemma dark purple or brown, glossy, beraring an awn as much as 3 mm long, margins ciliolate.

分布

• 台灣 : in exposed red soil hillsides.
• 世界 : The Himalayas, India, Myanmar, China, Australia and Tropical Africa.

引證標本

HSINCHU: Hsinchu, Hsu 1304. MIAOLI: Neima, Yamamoto et al. 42. Toufeng, Hsu 5299. TAINAN: Liuchia, Inoue s. n.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 454. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)