生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Culms tufted, to 150 cm tall.
• Blade linear, grayish.
• Inflorescence in digitate spikes, spikes 6-10 cm long. Spikelets usually 1-flowered, ca. 1.8 mm long, sessile, imbricate in 2 rows along one side of rachis; glumes chartaceous, 1-nerved, acute, lanceolate or deltoid-lanceolate; lower glume persistent , 2/3 as long as upper one; lemma coriaceous, compressed, folded, deltoid-ovate, minutely ciliate abaxially, margins somewhat inrolled; palea chartaceous, strongly 2-keeled, as long as lemma; upper floret usually reduced to a rachilla.
• Caryopsis oblong; embryo 1/2 their length of caryopsis.

分布

• 台灣 : only in the south.
• 世界 : Southern India, Myanmar, southeastern Asia and Malaysia.

引證標本

TAlNAN: Hsinhua, Hsu 13655. PINGTUNG: Kenting, Suzuki s. n. 20 Jun 1933.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 405. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)