生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Rhizome stout; culms to 130 cm tall, basal part ascending, branching and rooting.
• Blade scabrous throughout, base petiolate, to 20 cm long; ligule membranaceous, ca. 2 mm long; sheath usually longer than internode, glabrous.
• False panicle to 40 cm long; raceme single, ca. 8 mm long, subtended by swollen involucre. Spikelets 3 on 1-noded rachis; one sessile and other 2 pedicellate, one of pedicellate spikelets much reduced. Sessile spikelet ca. 5 mm long; callus well developed, ca. 1 mm long; lower glume coriaceous, usually farinose, nerves numerous, rounded abaxially; upper glume boat shaped, ; 5-7-nerved; lower lemma membranaceous, paleate, subequaling spikelet; upper lemma membranaceous, 2/3 as long as spikelet, entire, terminating in an awn arising from sinus, palea 1/3 as long as lemma, anthers ca. 2 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : A very common grass throughout the Island in plains and hills. It is considered, to be a good fodder when young, but is ignored if more palatable grasses are available. Often found in hedges and among bushes, on forest margins and along irrigation ditches
• 世界 : India throughout southeastern Asia to Australia.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Kuanyingshan, Hsu 363. TAICHUNG: Neipu, Hsu 9285. CHANGHUA: Lukang, Kuoh 1627. CHIAYI: Wuhong, Kuoh 3930. YUNLIN: Huwei, Yamamoto 1132. TAINAN: Anping, Hsu s. n. Jun 1960. KAOHSIUNG: Chishan, Suzuki 5739. PINGTUNG: Oluanpi, Hsu 515*; Changlo to Pinlang, Hsu 8202. TAITUNG: Lanyu Is., Chang 2276, Kuoh 4819, Sato 1068* . Lutao Is., Huang 6914. HUALIEN: Yuli, Suzuki 5369.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 318. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)