生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Tufted, perennial herbs, culms erect.
• leaf sheathglabrous or pubescent, hairs 1-2 mm long, collar pubescent, hairs 1-2 mm long, ligule a row of c. 0.5 mm long hairs, 3-4 mm wide, leaf blade linear, 10-30 × 0.1-0.3 cm.
• Panicles open, to 15 cm long, nodes and branch base pilose, hairs 1.5-2.5 mm long. Spikelets disarticulating from the base upward, linear to lanceolate. Glumes 1-nerved, scabrous on the nerve, apex acute; lower glume lanceolate, ca. 1.5 mm long; upper glume ovate-lanceolate, ca. 2 mm long; rachilla persistent, 0.6-0.8 mm long, nearly 1/3 as long as the lemma. Lemma deciduous, elliptic, 3-nerved, 2-2.5 mm long, apex acute; palea persistent, oblong, keels smooth to minutely scaberulous, 2-2.5 mm long, similar to the lemma, apex acute; lodicules 2, membranous, ca. 0.3 mm long, anthers 3, 1.3-1.5 mm long.
• Caryopsis ellipsoid, dorso-ventrally compressed, 1.3-1.4 mm long, dorsally not grooved.

分布

• 台灣 : This lovegrass has naturalized in low to high elevations in Taiwan
• 世界 : is native in South Africa, and has been introduced widely into the tropics for ornament, fodder (but sometimes poisonous (triglochinin)), or slope protection.

引證標本

Nantou Co., Hsin-Yi Town, Guanshan Tunnel No. 2, M.-J. Jung y070301 (NCKU). Taichung Co., Heping Town, Wuling Farm, M.-J. Jung z051001(HAST, TAIF); Shaan-shan, T.-T. Lin and T.-H. Hsieh s.n. (TAIF). Taitung Co., Taimali Town, Jingluen River Bridge, M.-J. Jung x010203 (NCKU).

參考文獻

• Ming-Jer Jung, Jan Frederik Veldkamp and Chang-Sheng Kuoh, Taiwania 53(1): 97. 2008.