生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennials; culms tufted, erect; ligule a ring of short hairs, ca. 0.2 mm long.
• Inflorescence a contracted panicle. Spikelets 1-flowered, lanceolate, ca. 1.8 mm long grayish green or purplish; glumes thin, unequal; lower glume ovate, truncate, nerveless, ca. 1/3 as long as spikelet; upper glume ovate, pointed, ca. 2/3 as long as spikelet, 1-nerved; lemma papery, ovate-lanceolate, 3-nerved, but lateral ones obscure, as long as spikelet; palea boat shaped in side view; anthers 3, minute, ca. 0.2 mm long.
• Fruit an utricle, brownish, elliptic-obovate, 1 mm long, with net-like markings, hilum punctiform, embryo 1/2 its length of grain.

分布

• 台灣 : A common grass and readily eaten by cattle and sheep.
• 世界 : Eastern Himalaya, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thaland, Malaysia, China and Japan.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Yangmingshan, Hsu s. n. 29 May 1959; Fulung, Hsu 896. ILAN: Chiaochi Hsu 822. HSINCHU: Hsinchu, Hsu 1305. MIAOLI: Tahu, Chen 38. TAICHUNG: Houli, Suzuki 6267. CHANGHUA: Chichow, Suzuki & Kamikoti 4570. NANTOU: Sun Moon Lake, Hsu 1341; Puli, Hsu 1390. CHIAYI: Alishan, Sasaki s. n. 29 Jan 1936. YUNLIN: Huwei, Chu 283*. TAINAN: Hsinying, Yamarnoto 1261. KAOHSIUNG: Nantzu, Wang 20093 PINGTUNG: Fengshan, Suzuki 4288. TAITUNG: Suoan, Hsu 1043; Lanyu Is., Hsu 4924. HUALIEN: Hsinchen, Suzuki & Ko 4927.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 435. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)