生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennials; rhizome well developed; stolon long creeping, rooting at nodes.
• Blade more or less hairy; ligule short, ca. 1.2mm long, fringed wiht hairs; sheath imbricate, loose, longer than internode, long ciliated along one side.
• Raceme with 2-4-spikelets, spikelet subtended by bristles and hairs. Spikelets linear-lanceolate, ca. 15 mm long, enclosed in uppermost sheath, inconspicuous; lower glume mambranous, veinless, rounded, ca. 6 mm long, clasping base of spikelet; upper glume narrowly deltoid, more than 13-veins; subequal to spikelet; lower lemma and upper lemma subequal, with tessellate veins; upper floret cartilagious; anther oblong, filament long; style slender; lodicule reduced.

分布

• 台灣 : weedy on hillsides or roadsides.
• 世界 : Originally from tropical East Africa, but introduced into many other countrise.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Lishan, Hsu 12462. NANTOU: Chianchen, Huang 7.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang. 2000. Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 502. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)