生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Culms slender, 0.2-0.5 mm across, tufted.
• Blade linear, ca. 3 cm long, 2 mm wide; sheath compressed; ligule membranaceous, 0.6-0.8 mm long, fimbriate at apex.
• Inflorescence a solitary raceme. Spikelets paired, dimorphlc, upper pedicellate and much reduced, ca. 1 mm long, lower one ca. 3 mm long; joint of rachis glabrous. Glumes chartaceous, margins folded, lower glume lanceolate ca. 2.8 mm long; upper glume slightly fimbriate, 1-nerved, as long as lower. Lower floret reduced. Upper floret membranaceous, slightly shorter than glume, ca. 2.5 mm long; lemma deeply 2-cleft, with a flexuous awn arising from sinus; palea linear-lanceolate, 2-keeled, margins fimbriate.

分布

• 台灣 : waste places and hillsides. As the species matures the leaves and sheaths turn a rosy red. It is rather rare in occurence.
• 世界 : Widely distributed in the Old World.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Leikungpo, Kuoh 2090. HSINCHU: Hsinchu, Hsu 1310. MIAOLI: Senghsing, Hsu 1350. PINGTUNG: Ssuchungchi, Hsu 13537. TAIWAN: Without locality, Sasaki s. n. 18 Apr 1932*.

引用文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 576. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)