生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Reed-like, culms 1.5-3.5 m tall. mouth of sheath densely covered with long hairs; ligule 2 mm long, truncate, shortly ciliate on dorsal side; blade 30-60 cm long, 0.6-2 cm wide, apex attenuate.
• Panicle erect to nodding, contracted to lax, 30-60 cm long, 10-20 cm wide.
• Spikelets 2-7-flowered, 6-9 mm long; glumes membranaceous, lanceolate; lower 2.4-2.8 mm long, apex acute or rounded; upper 2.8-3.2 mm long, apex acute, 1-nerved; lowest lemma 3.5-4 mm long, 3-nerved fertile, second lemma membranaceous, 3.8-4.2 mm long, margins long ciliate, 3-nerved, apex sinus, middle nerve extending into a recurved awn; palea membranaceous, 3 mm long, 2-keeled, apex slightly cleft, minutely ciliate along keels.

分布

• 世界 : Eastern India to southwestern China and western Malesia.

引證標本

KAOHSIUNG: Liukuei, Hsu 13701; Tenchi, Kuoh 15308.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 329. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)