生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennials; culm branching, woody, scandent, 1-1.5 m long.
• Blade linear-lanceolate, 8-20 cm long, 8-15 mm wide, base abruptly narrowed; sheath shorter than internode; ligule a ring of tawny hairs, scarcely over 1 mm long.
• Panicle open, 10-15 cm long, axis hairy, branches terete, sometimes viscid. Spikelets ovoid, ca. 2 mm long, obtuse or subacute, glabrous or with a few short hairs near tip of glumes and sterile lower lemma; lower glume 2/3-4/5 length of spikelet, actue, 3-veined; upper glume and lower lemma equal, 5-veined; lower lemma with a lower palea of ca. 1/3 length of lower lemma; upper lemma smooth, shiny, ridged abaxially, brown at maturity, apex bent forward.

分布

• 台灣 : common at low elevations. It grows on forest margins and forms large areas, straggling over other plants.
• 世界 : India, Myanmar, Indochina, Malesia, Australia and southern China.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Hsintien, Suzuki 3170. NANTOU: Sun Moon Lake, Hsu 1332. PINGTUNG: Chuang 3106.

引用文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 493. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)