生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Culms slender, tufted.
• Blade ca. 15 cm long, 3 mm wide, surface sparingly covered with silky hairs; ligule ca. 0.4 mm long, a ring of hairs; sheath densely covered with long silky hairs.
• Inflorescence a contracted spike-like panicle. Spikelets many-flowered, ca. 2 mm long; glumes chartaceous, deltoidlanceolate, l-nerved, pointed at apex; lower glume slightly shorter than upper; upper glume ca. 1 mm long; lemma chartaceous, ca. 1 mm long, 3-nerved, mucronate, backside of midrib covered with short glandular hairs; palea chartaceous, as long as lemma, oblanceolate, 2-keeled, cilia longer than width of palea.
• Caryopsis ca. 0.3 mm long; embryo 1/2 its length of caryopsis.

分布

• 台灣 : A sporadic annuals in dry places.
• 世界 : Tropics and subtropics of the Old World and New Worlds.

引證標本

TAINAN: Hsinhua Hutoupei, Kuoh s. n. 9 May 1986. TAITUNG: Tengleh, Liu 5911011.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 418. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)