生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Culms tufted.
• Blade ca. 4 cm long, 3 mm wide, with short hairs abaxially and margins; ligule minute, ca. 0.2 mm long. Inflorescence a single raceme, ca. 4 cm long.
• Spikelets paired, dimorphic, all sessile, upper reduced, liner as long as lower; lower oblong, compressed, ca. 4 mm long. Lower glume subcoriaceous, oblong, apex 2-winged, lower part inrolled, inconspicuously 9-nerved, tessellate-nerved, glabrous, lateral spines stout and short, as long as spikelet; upper glume subcoriaceous, lanceolate, margins folded, 3-nerved, ca. 3.8 mm long. Lower floret hyaline, ca. 3.4 mm long; lemma lanceolate, boat shaped, upper margins inrolled; palea elliptic, margins folded. Upper floret of same texture, ca. 2.5 mm long; lemma oblong, margins slightly inrolled, irregularly toothed; palea as long as lemma, deltoid at apex.

分布

• 台灣 : This promising lawn grass in Taiwan forms dense flat mats on poor soils on hillsides.
• 世界 : Southern China and Vietnam.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Yingko, Hsu 591. ILAN: Chiaochi, Hsu 99. HSINCHU: Hsienchaoshih, Hsu 7789A; Tapu, Hsu 479. TAOYUAN: Nankan, Hosokawa s. n. 6 Jul 1930. MIAOLI: Chunan, Hsu 479., TAICHUNG: Houli, Hsu 235.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 544. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)