生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennials; clums erect, tall, to 3 m high.
• Ligule with cilia 3 mm long.
• Inflorescence a cylindrical contracted panicle, ca. 15 mm long, main axis densely hairy. Spikelets 2-flowered, ca. 5 mm long, solitary, subsessile, subrrounded by an involucre of bristles, falling off together with spikelet when mature; glume deltoid, 1/4 as long as spikelet; lower lemma lanceolate, membranaceous, minutely hispidulous, margins ciliate, as long as spikelet, 5-veined, palea absent; upper lemma lanceolate in back view, membranaceous, minutely hispidulous, lower half indurate, glabrous, 5-veined, palea of similar texture, 2-veined; anthers 3, with a tuft of hairs at one end.

分布

• 台灣 : in open areas.
• 世界 : Originally from tropical Africa, but now introduced into many other tropical countries.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Yangmingshan, Hsu 9165. PINGTUNG: Kenting, Hsu s. n.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 505. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)