生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Culms 40-80 cm tall.
• Blades linear, 8-20 cm long, 4-15 mm wide; ligule chartaceous, tongue shaped, minutely hispid abaxially, 2-3 mm long.
• Panicle open, usually no branch developing, 10-20 cm long. Spikelets nodding, 1-2-florets, persistent, not disarticulating when mature, 2-2.5 cm long; glumes subequal, chartaceous, margin hyaline, rounded abaxially, 7-11-nerved, sometimes connected with tessellate nerves; lemma stiff, callus scar of first lemma indistinct, not rimmed, back hairy on lower half, 7-9-nerved, awnless or with a long straight awn arising from backside; palea shorter than lemma, minutely hairy on two keels. Lodicules with a lateral tooth.
• Caryopsis hairy; tightly enclosed between lemma and palea, hilum linear.

分布

• 世界 : Widely cultivated in non-tropical regions of both hemispheres for food and fodders.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Taipei NTU Farm, Kao s. n. 29 Jun 1957. CHIAYI: Alishan, Chen 16313.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 351. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)