生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Culms tufted, to 20 cm long.
• Blade linear-lanceolate, 4-6 mm wide, 5-nerved, covered with tubercular hairs along lateral nerves.
• Inflorescence a large open panicle, ca. 20 cm long. Spikelets usually 3-flowered, ca. 1.1 mm long, uppermost floret reduced to merely a rachilla; glumes chartaceous, lanceolate, scabrous abaxially, 1-nerved; lower glume ca. 1 mm long, slightly shorter than upper; lemma ovate-lanceolate, subcoriaceous, 3 nerved, margins slightly inrolled, pubescent abaxially; palea chartaceous, elliptic, 2-keeled, sparingly hispid abaxially, nearly as long as lemma.
• Caryopsis ca. 0.6 mm long, surface reticulate, rounded at apex, acute at base; embryo 1/3 its length of caryopsis.

分布

• 台灣 : rather scarce.
• 世界 : Tropical Asia and Africa.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Taipei, Suzuki 12356. TAICHUNG: Neipu, Hsu 273. TAINAN: Chiali, Morimoto 232. KAOHSIUNG: Fengshan, Wang 20087. PINGTUNG: Hengchun, Hsu 501. TAITUNG: Lanyu Is., Sasaki s. n. 5 Jul 1935; Lutao Is., Sasaki s. n. 5 Jul 1935.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 427. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)