生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Culms more than 60 cm long, 2-7 mm across.
• Blade ca. 35 cm long, 13 mm wide, hirsute abaxially; ligule tongue shaped, characeous, hairy abaxially, ca. 3.6 mm long.
• Inflorescence a large panicle, ca. 20 cm long, branches whorled. Spikelets paired, monomorphic, ca. 5 mm long. subcoriaceous, lanceolate, 7-nerved, sericeous abaxially, shortly awned; rachis articulating; upper glume lanceolate, nearly as long as lower, sericeous, aristate; lower lemma hyaline, 1-nerved, broadly lanceolate, margins fimbriate, ca. 3.5 mm long; upper lemma hyaline, lanceolate, as long as lower lemma, 1-nerved, 2-toothed, with a flexuous awn of ca. 12 mm long; upper palea hyaline, lanceolate, nerveless, margins fimbriate, ca. 3.2 mm long; anther 2 mm long.
• Caryopsis cylindrical, ca. 2 mm long; embryo 1/2 its length of caryopsis.

分布

• 世界 : The Himalaya, India, China to Japan. Usually on sunny slopes.

引用文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 540. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)