生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennials; culm ftufted, erect, glabrous, 40-80 cm tall.
• Blade 5-10 mm wide, slightly glabrous; sheath glabrous, longer than internode, compressed-keeled; ligule membranaceous, ca. 1.7 mm long.
• Inflorescence with 3-5 racemes, racemes 3-6 cm long; rachis 1.5-3 mm wide, smooth. Spikelet obtuse, ca. 2 mm long, elliptic or obovate, usually solitary, imbricate, in 2 rows; lower glume absent; upper glume and lower lemma equal, membranaceous, 3-veined; upper lemma brown at maturity, coriaceous, shiny.

分布

• 台灣 : in moist places.
• 世界 : India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Malesia, northern Australia and Polynesia.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Taichung, Shimada 361C. TAINAN: Tainan, Yamamoto & Suzuki 2342. PINGTUNG: Chihou, Morimoto 7500.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 500. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)