生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennials; stolons long creeping.
• Leaf blade thin, 5-20 cm long, 8-10 cm wide, broad and with a rounded apex; ligule short, ca. 0.5 mm long; sheath loose, basal ones imbricate.
• Racemes 2-5, digitately arranged, 5-10 cm long; rachis triangular, spikelets in 2-rows along one-side. Spilelets sparingly soft hairy, 2-3 mm long, compressed, oblong, obtuse; lower glume wanting; upper glume and lower lemma same shape, lower palea absent; upper floret hard, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, margins slightly inrolled, ca. 2 mm long, mucronate and pubescent at apex.

分布

• 台灣 : moist and shady areas.
• 世界 : Native to tropical America. Introduced and naturalized in many warm countries.

引證標本

TAIPEI: NTU Campus, Hsu 11254. TAINAN, Tainan, Hsu 13645. PINGTUNG: Pingtung, Hsu 13635; Santimen, Hsu 40136.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 456. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)