Setaria italica

小米

naturalized

Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauv.

名彙資訊

特徵描述

典藏標本

數位照片

分布位置

相關資訊

名彙資訊

學名發表文獻

P. Beauv., Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 51. 1812. (Ess. Agrostogr.)

台灣首次記錄發表文獻

Ohwi, Acta phytotaxonomica et geobotanica eng 11: 51. 1942. (Acta Phytotax. Geobot.)

異名

無

各語言俗名

英

Italian millet.
日

あわ.
原

Dilamalow (Bunun). Tatasin (Saisiyat). Dawa (Paiwan). Bako (Paiwan). Tonu (Atayal).
台

Tai á. Káu bòe tai. Sek á.

參考文獻

Wu, Yang, Teng, Chang, Yang and Hsieh, Taiwania 55(2): 158. 2010.
Jen-Han Lin, Study on the plant utilization of Taki-bakka Bunun Tribe in Nantou county. Master thesis. National Pingtung university of science and Technology 62. 2004. (Study on the plant utilization of Taki-bakka Bunun Tribe in Nantou county)
Yang, A list of plants in Taiwan . 1982. (List Pl. Taiwan)

特徵描述

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.