生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Culms short, branching and rooting at lower nodes.
• Blade ca. 1.6 cm long, ovate-cordate to lanceolate, acuminate at apex, scabrous, margins thickened, coriaceous, ciliate at base; sheath pubescent, 1-2 cm long, margins ciliate; ligule a ring of hairs.
• Panicle ca. 3 cm long, oblong in outline, pyramidal when mature; pedicel short, with thickened tip. Spikelets ca. 1.5 mm long, with subglobose upper floret and a ovoid lower floret; glumes 5-7-nerved; lower glume obtuse, nearly as long as upper glume; upper glume oblong, thickened, slightly shorter than spikelet. Flowers dimorphic, upper one slightly coriaceous, pubescent, lower one thinner, glabrous; anther ca. 0.6 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : often gregarious in swamps.
• 世界 : From tropical India, Myanmar to southeastern Asia and Australia.

引證標本

TAIWAN: Sinabonzon, Seki & Yamamoto 469.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 448. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)