Diplachne fusca

雙稃草

Diplachne fusca (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.

名彙資訊

特徵描述

典藏標本

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相關資訊

Roem. & Schult., Systema Vegetabilium 2: 615. 1817. (Syst. Veg.)

Ohwi, The Botanical magazine, Tokyo 55: 311. 1941. (Bot. Mag. Tokyo)

Triodia formosana Honda

Honda, The Botanical magazine, Tokyo 41: 12. 1927. (Bot. Mag. Tokyo)
Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth

Honda, Journal of the Faculty of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo. Section III, Botany 3: 148. 1930. (J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot.)

herb

Culms tufted.
Blade linear, needle-like, ca. 12 cm long, 1 mm wide; ligule hyaline, ca. 2 mm long, tongue shaped.
Inflorescence a contracted panicle, ca. 10 cm long. Spikelets several-flowered, shortly pedicelate, ca. 6 mm long, 2-2.2 mm wide; glumes chartaceous, conspicuously 1-nerved, lanceolate, acute; lowest lemma chartaceous, 3-5 mm long, broadly lanceolate, 3-nerved, 2-toothed, margins inrolled, basal part with short silky hairs; midrib prolonged into a short awn of ca. 1.5 mm long; palea elliptic, chartaceous, 2-keeled, keels siliceous; anther ca. 0.5 mm long.
Caryopsis ca. 2 mm long; embryo 1/3 its length of caryopsis.

台灣 : Usually found in littoral areas.
世界 : Widely distributed from India, extending to Egypt and tropical, South Africa and through southeastern Asia to Australia.