生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Densely tufted perennials.Rhizome short. Culms to 1 m tall, 3 mm in diam.
• Blade 20 cm long, 5 mm wide, minutely hispid on nerves; ligule 5 mm long, truncate, membranaceous.
• Panicle loose, to 9 cm long, branches single, rarely binate; Spikelet 2-4-flowered, 7 mm long.
• glumes lanceolate, weakly 2-3-nerved, hairy on lateral nerves; lower glume chartaceous, 4 mm long; upper subcoriaceous, 5 mm long; lemma lanceolate, 5.5 mm long, chartaceous, 5-nerved, with a short awn at apex, hairy abaxially and margins; palea chartaceous, narrowly lanceolate, 2-keeled, minutely ciliate on keels, margins folded and overlapping; anther 2 mm long.

分布

• 世界 : Originally distributed in Europe, north Africa and temperate Asia. Widely naturalized or cultivated in North America and southern Africa.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Lishan, Kuo 8427. NANTOU: Tatachia, Kuoh s. n. 17 Sep 2000.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 376. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)