生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Culms long creeping.
• Blade ca. 20 cm long, 5 mm wide, subulate; ligule ca. 0.8 mm long, chartaceous, truncate and minutely ciliate abaxially.
• Inflorescence a spike; spikelets sunken in a cavity of rachis joint. Spikelets 2-flowered, ca. 12 mm long; rachis joints ca. 4 mm long; lower glume deltoid, membranaceous; margins minutely scabrid, ca. 0.8 mm long; upper glume coriaceous, ca. 12 mm long, lanceolate, aristate, margins membranaceous and inrolled; lemma subcoriaceous, ca. 4.5 mm long, broadly lanceolate, 3-nerved, lateral nerves close to margin, acute, basal part minutely bearded; palea elliptic, subcoriaceous, as long as lemma; anther ca. 2 mm long.
• Caryopsis ca. 6 mm long, oblong; embryo 1/2 its length of caryopsis.

分布

• 世界 : Seacoasts; Sri Lanka, Kenya, the Mascarenes to Taiwan and Australia.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Hsu 513, Hsu 13611,. TAITUNG: Lanyu Is., Hsu 9366, Kuoh 4975.*

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 429. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)