生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Annuals; culm erect or decumbent, 20-50 cm tall, node brownish black.
• Blade 8-20 cm long; sheath glabrous; ligule membranaceous, truncate, ca. 1 mm long, fringed with hairs.
• Panicle open, 5-15 cm long, terminal and aixllary. Spikelets glabrous, acute, ca. 2.5 mm long; lower glume obtuse, 3-veined, 1/3 or less length of spikelet; upper glume and lower lemma equal, strongly 9-11-veined; lower palea membranaceous, nearly as long as spikelet; upper lemma smooth, shiny, browm at maturity, coriaceous.

分布

• 台灣 : common in sugar-cane plantations, tea plantations and forest edges.
• 世界 : Eastern Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Malesia and China.

引證標本

HSINCHU: Hsinpu, Suzuki 5574. MAIOLI: Tapu, Hsu 602. TAICHUNG: Hsinchung, Hsu 712. NANTOU: Chuangliao, Mori 8052.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 493. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)