生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Culms procumbent, rooting at basal node.
• Blade linear, 8-10 cm long; ligule ca. 0.5 mm long, fimbriate, pubescent abaxially.
• Inflorescence of digitately arranged spikes. Spikelets 2-flowered, 3-4 mm long (excluding awn), sessile; glumes lanceolate, hyaline, conspicuously 1-nerved; lower glume 2/3 their length of upper one, ca. 1.5 mm long, acute or shortly awned; upper glume ca. 2.2 mm long, conspicuously awned; lower floret fertile, lemma ovate-lanceolate, with a sinus at apex, subcoriaceous, ca. 3 mm long, densely covered with silky hairs, especially along upper margin, 3-nerved, midrib prolonged into a long awn of ca. 7 mm long; palea subcoriaceous, as long as lemma, 2-keeled, minutely 2-toothed; upper floret reduced to merely a lemma of ca. 2 mm long.
• Caryopsis ellipsoid, ca. 2 mm long; embryo 3/4 their length of caryopsis.
• <i>Chloris virgata</i> is reputed to be a good fodder grass.

分布

• 世界 : Widely distributed throughout the tropics of both hemispheres.

引證標本

TAINAN: Anpin, Hsu s. n. 24 Jun 1968. PINGTUNG: Fangliao, Hsu 1179, De Vol 7219.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 405. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)