Coix lacryma-jobi

薏苡

naturalized

Coix lacryma-jobi L.

名彙資訊

特徵描述

典藏標本

數位照片

分布位置

相關資訊

名彙資訊

學名發表文獻

L. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 972. (Sp. Pl.)

台灣首次記錄發表文獻

Ohwi. 1942. Acta phytotaxonomica et geobotanica eng 11: 179. (Acta Phytotax. Geobot.)

各語言俗名

中

薏苡、川穀、菩提子、薏仁、米仁、六谷、川谷、鴨母珠、薏苡仁、苡仁、白薏仁、苡米、六穀、草珠子、薏米
台

Ah bú chu
客

Tai2 gài mù drù
原

Katiai (Atayal)、Bokusi (Paiwan)
英

Job's tea、Adlay、Adlay millet
日

じゆずだま

參考文獻

Chen. 2006. The Invasive Alien Plant in Miaoli 298. (Invas. Al. Pl. Miaoli)
Wu, Yang, Teng, Chang, Yang and Hsieh. 2010. Taiwania 55(2): 157.
Yang. 1982. A list of plants in Taiwan. (List Pl. Taiwan)
Hui-Chun Hsu. 2007. Plant use knowledge of Hakka ethnobotany in Beipu township, Hsinchu county. Master thesis. National Pingtung University of Science and Technology. (Plant use knowledge of Hakka ethnobotany in Beipu township, Hsinchu county.)

特徵描述

生活型

herb

形態特徵

Perennials; culms erect, single.
Ligule hard, ca. 1 mm long.
Inflorescence erect or pendent, racemes axillary, ca. 8 cm long, staminate spikelets terminal, pistillate spikelets basal, enclosed by a bead-like hard involucre. Spikelets unisexual, staminate spikelets in pairs, one pedicelate, other sessile, sessile one ca. 6 mm long; lower glume coriaceous, oblong-ovate, 2-keeled, with short cilia on keels, manynerved, as long as spikelet; upper glume membranaceous, ovate, many-nerved, with tessellate nerves near tips, slightly smaller than lower glume; all florets equal, hyaline, as long as spikelet. Pistillate spikelets 3 together, one fertile and 2 sterile at base; glumes of fertile spikelet many-nerved, hyaline below, lower very broad, infolding spikelet, upper narrower than lower, keeled; upper lemma and palea hyaline, 3-nerved; ovary with an elongated style.
Caryopsis ca. 5 mm long.

分布

台灣 : There are several varieties cultivated in Taiwan: recently it is being extensively cultivated for medicinal purposes and also for food.
世界 : A tall grass which is cultivated in many parts of the tropics.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Taipei, Kao 4257; Wulai, Kuoh 1224. MIAOLI: Tsolan, Kao & Lin s. n. 21 Jun 1957. NANTOU: Puli, Kao 2829. PINGGTUNG: Pingtung, Hsu 531. TAITUNG: Chihpen, Sasaki s. n. 9 Oct 1934.