生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennials; culm 30-60 cm tall, densely caespitose, erect, glabrous; sheaths shorter than internode.
• Blades coriaceous, 2-5 mm wide, margins involute; ligule long ciliate. Panicle 10-15 cm long, loose, branches ascending, scabrous, axils glabrous.
• Spikelets lanceolate, slightly compressed, 5-10 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, 6-15-flowered, ascending or slighlty appressed, distinctly pedicellate, grayish or slightly purplish; glumes broadly lanceolate, acuminate, 1-nerved; lower glume 1-1.5 mm long; upper glume 1.5-1.7 mm long; lemmas ca. 2 mm long, ovate, acute; minutely punctate, keels distinctly scabrous, lateral nerves distinct, subparallel, ca. 2/3 their length of lemma; palea persistent, keels arc shaped, ciliatescabrous; rachilla persistent, slightly compressed; stamens 3, anthers oblong, blackish purple, ca. 0.5 mm long.
• Caryopsis ellipsoid, slightly compressed, obscurely striolate, ca. 0.6 mm long.
• Similar to <i>E. nutans</i>, but distinguished by its broader leaves and persistent palea.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Hsintien, Faurie 153 (Type, KYO).

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 420. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)