生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Culms scandent, more than 1 m high, nodes numerous, basal nodes branched and rooting.
• Blade narrowly lanceolate, to 10 cm long, 7 mm wide, smooth; ligule hard, ca. 0.2 mm long, truncate; sheath shorter than internode, margin ciliate.
• Panicle open, branches slender, to 20 cm long; pedicel short, terminating in a spikelet, or several spikelet aggregated on slender panicle branches. Spikelets ca. 2 mm long, elliptic; glumes membranaceous, subequal, but much shorter than spikelet, 3-5-veined; lower glume 3-veined, ca. 1/2 as long as spikelet; upper glume 5-veined, ca. 1/2-2/4 as long as spikelet; lower lemma chartaceous, 7-veined, as long as spikelet; upper floret oblong, smooth, nearly as long as spikelet, basal part narrowed into a stalk.

分布

• 台灣 : on hillside forest margins in northern Taiwan.
• 世界 : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indochina, Malesia and southern China.

引證標本

ILAN: Yuanshan, Hsu 8368. TAIPEI: Tatanshan, Kuo 10201; Tunghua, Huang 816.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 485. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)