生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Plants dwarf, with creeping rhizomes or stolon.
• Blades narrow, 4-5 cm long, 1-2 mm wide; ligule a ring of hairs, minute, ca. 0.1 mm long; mouth of sheath sparingly covered with long silky haris.
• Inflorescence a single spike-like raceme, ca. 2 mm long. Spikelets 1-flowered, ca. 2.5 mm long, laterally compressed, lanceolate, shortly pedicelate; upper glume as long as spikelet, broadly ovate, smooth, coriaceous, margins thinner and inrolled, 1-nerved, lanceolate; palea 1/2 its length of lemma, hyaline, lanceolate.

分布

• 台灣 : It is a good sand-binder and is very common in Taiwan.
• 世界 : Widely distributed in the tropics of Asia, and now introduced into America as a lawn grass.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Shihlin, Tanaka & Shimada 17785*. ILAN: Chiaochi, Hsu 814; Ilan, Kuo 93. HSINCHU: Hungmao, Kuoh & Suzuki s. n. 9 Apr 1929. TAICHUNG: Tatushan, Hsu 9125. CHANGHUA: Fwubao, Guo et al. 068. YUNLIN: Huwei, Yamamoto et al. 1011. TAINAN: Chiali, Morimoto 634. PENGHU: Kudo & Mori 3099. PINGTUNG: Linpien, Yamamoto & Suzuki 1617. TAITUNG: Lanyu Is., Sasaki s. n. 5 Jun 1926, Hsu 9359.

引用文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 440. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)