生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Culms tufted.
• Blade lanceolate, ca. 4 cm long, 6 mm wide, margins minutely ciliate; ligule membranaceous, ca. 0.5 mm long.
• Inflorescence a terminal raceme, ca. 13 cm long. Spikelets 1-flowered, ca. 2 mm long, excluding awn; glumes chartaceous, lanceolate, hispid abaxially, l-nerved, prolonged into a long awn; lower glume ca. 1.8 mm long, with an awn of ca. 10 mm long; upper glume ca. 1.5 mm long, with an awn of ca. 5 mm long; lemma hyaline, lanceolate, rounded, 1-nerved, ca. 0.8 mm long.
• Caryopsis ellipsoid, ca. 1.5 mm long; embryo 1/3 its length of caryopsis.

分布

• 台灣 : It grows on sandy places in central and southern Taiwan.
• 世界 : Widely distributed in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia to southeastern Asia generally.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Tatushan, Hsu & Kuoh 10754. Lin s. n. 6 Apr 1970. YUNLIN: Huwei, Ashikaga 265. TAINAN: Tainan, Morimoto 271. PINGTUNG: Fangliao, Hsu 5000.

參考文獻

• HSU, Chien-Chang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 431. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)