生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Plants pubescent.
• Blade ca. 10 cm long, 5 mm wide; ligule ca. 1.8 mm long, tongue-like, fimbriate on upper margin, hispid abaxially.
• Racemes 2, ca. 8 cm long. Spikelets paired, more or less similar, upper pedicellate, lower sessile and fertile, ca. 5.5 mm long; joint of rachis and pedicel slender, not thickened. Lower glume as long as spikelet, transversely rugose, coriaceous, 2-keeled, ciliate along keels, numerous-nerved; upper glume subcoriaceous, numerous-nerved, anastomosing at apex; as long as lower glume. Lower floret lanceolate, ca. 4.5 mm long, lemmas and palea 2-keeled, hyaline; lemma 5-nerved. Upper floret ca. 3 mm long, hyaline; upper lemma 2-cleft, aristate, palea 2-keeled, oblong.
• Caryopsis ca. 0.7 mm long, oblong; embryo 1/2 its length of caryopsis.

分布

• 世界 : The Philippines and Taiwan.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Taipei City, Sasaki s. n. Sep 1929*. NTU Campus, Hsu 217. MIAOLI: Chunan, Hsu 490. KAOHSIUNG: Fengshan, Suzuki s. n. 31 Oct 1934.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 557. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)