生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Rhizome short, tufted. Culms to 120 cm tall; nodes usually farinose.
• Blade to 50 cm long; ligule membranaceous, ca. 2.5 mm long; sheath remains persistent, curling up when dry.
• False panicle large, to 40 cm long; racemes paired, 3-6-noded, subtended by involucre of ca. 1.8 cm long; pedicel and joint of rachis ca. 2 mm long, margins white hairy. Spikelets paired, one pedicellate and other sessile. Sessile spikelet oblong-lanceolate, 3-5 mm long; callus ca. 0.5 mm long, hairy; lower glume 2-keeled, keels narrowly winged, 2-4-nerved, flat; upper glume boat shaped, margins membranaceous and ciliate, keel winged; lower lemma oblong-lanceolate, ca. 3/4 its length of spikelet, 2-keeled, margins ciliate; upper lemma narrow, 2/3 its length of spikelet, 2-cleft, with an awn ca. 8 mm long protruding from sinus, epaleate.

分布

• 台灣 : One of the common grasses on hillsides, especially in red soil areas in Taiwan.
• 世界 : Southern China, the Philippines and Vietnam.

引證標本

MIAOLI: Houlong, Hsu s. n. 1 Sep 1954. TAICHUNG: Houli, Hsu 63. NANTOU: Kuantaochi, Kuoh 4207. TAINAN: Tainan, Hsu 538. PINGTUNG: Ssuchungchi, Chang 2122.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 536. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)