生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Culms erect, stoloniferous.
• Blade ca. 5 mm wide, basal part covered with long silky hairs; ligule subcoriaceous, ca. 6 mm long, ciliate abaxially.
• Inflorescence of several spikes ca. 10 cm long, digitately arranged. Spikelets several-flowered, 4-4.5 mm long, sessile; rachis pilose; glumes membranaceous, 1nerved, hispid along nerves, lanceolate, acute, awned.
• lower glume 2/3 as long as upper glume; lower lemma elliptic, subcoriaceous, margins with short silky hairs, 3-nerved, 2-toothed, awn slightly longer than lemma; callus hairy; palea chartaceous, linear-elliptic, 2-keeled, with a shallow sinus at apex.
• This introduced species yields an excellent hay of high nutritive value and is eaten greedily by all livestock. Yields are the highest in irrigated fields.

分布

• 世界 : From Senegal eastward to the Sudan and south to South Africa, in open grasslands and savannahs.

引證標本

TAIPEI: NTU Campus, Hsu A2. TAICHUNG: Chunghsing Univ., Kuoh 1218. TAINAN: Hsinhua, Hsu 10442. PINGTUNG: Pingtung, Hsu s. n. 21 Sep 1969.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 403. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)