生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Annuals; culms stout, erect, ligule a ring of hairs.
• Inflorescence a spike-like panicle, 10-30 cm long, pendent when mature, main axis densely hairy. Spikelets 2-flowered, elliptic, subtended by several bristles, falling off from bristles, awnless, 2.5-3 mm long, glume membranaceous; lower glume to 1/3 as long as spikelet, 3-veined; upper glume obtuse, nearly as long as spikelet, 5-7-veined; lower lemma as long as spikelet, 5-veined, palea hyaline, lanceolate, bifid, upper lemma oblong, slightly indurate, ca. 2 mm long, palea flattened, as long as lemma; anthers ca. 0.8 mm long.
• Caryopsis tightly enclosed between hardened lemma and palea.
• This species is widely cultivated in Taiwan, particularly by the aboriginal people and exists in an innumerable number of races differing in size, color of the grains, hairness of the panicle, and in many other ways. The grain is cooked as a porridge or made into beer, and is also the cheif food for cage birds.

引證標本

ILAN: Nanhutashan, Suzuki s. n. TAIPEI: Taipei, Hsu 747; Wanshengli, DeVol 8186. TAICHUNG: Lishan, Feung & Kao 4987; Sungmao, Kuo 8801. NANTOU: Lushan, Hsu 11524; Tuchen, Kuoh 3858. PINGTUNG: Lilongshan, Huang 247; Santimen, Jeng 247. TAITUNG: Lanyu Is., Keng 4386.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 510. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)