生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Culms tall, to 1 m high, ca. 1 cm in diam., hard, shiny.
• Blade ca. 5 mm wide; ligule truncate, ca. 1 mm long, ciliate abaxially and upper margin.
• Spikelets several in compound false panicle, interrupted by involucres; racemes subtended by 2 pairs of empty spikelets at base. Upper spikelet shortly pedicelate, awnless. Lower spikelet ca. 10 mm long, slightly shorter than upper. Glumes coriaceous, densely covered with golden hairs abaxially; lower lanceolate, ca. 8 mm long, 12-nerved, tessellate-nerved; upper linear, as long as spikelet, margins inrolled and glabrous; lower lemma lanceolate, margins fimbriate; upper lemma becoming a long awn of ca. 4.5 cm long; palea oblong, 2-nerved, ca. 2 mm long.

分布

• 世界 : India, Myanmar, Vietnam to China.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Tanshui, Suzuki 246. PINGTUNG: Tashulin, Yamamoto s. n. 6 Jan 1931. TAITUNG: Sasaki s. n. 16 Oct 1933.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 585. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)