Culms 40-80 cm tall. Blades linear, 8-20 cm long by 4-15 mm wide; ligule chartceous, tongue-shaped, minutely hispid on backside, 2-3 mm long. Panicle open, usually no branch developing, about 10-20 cm long. Spikelets nodding, 1-2-florets, persistent , not falling off when mature, 2-2.5 cm long; glumes subequal, chartaceous, margin hyaline, rounded on the backside, 7-11-nerved, sometimes connected with tessellate nerves; lemma stiff, hairy on the lower half, 7-9-nerved, awnless or with a long straight awn arising from the backside; palea shorter than the lemma, minutely hairy on the two keels. Caryopsis hairy; tightly enclosed between the lemma and palea, hilum linear.
TAIPEI: Taipei NTU Farm, Kao s. n. June 29, 1957.
Widely cultivated in non-tropical regions of both hemispheres for food and fodders.
midrib 中肋: (sm)small:with one vascular bundle
leaf surface 表面: (sha)upper surface with shallow notch between the veins
sclerenchyma 厚壁組織: (boscl)(bostr)on both sides of veins as strand or girder
chlorenchyma 葉綠組織: (palis)differentiate to palisade and sponge tissue
bundle sheath 維管束鞘: (nks)bundle sheaths with small amount of chloroplast
buliform cells well developed 泡狀細胞發達: mainly appear in adaxial side
no small vein under buliform cells泡狀細胞下無小脈: (fanfu)bulliform set fan shaped, cells similar in size
chlorenchyma cell number between two adjacent veins: 7
chloroplast form in bundle sheath 束鞘細胞內之葉綠體型式: (lit)with a little of chloroplast
mestome sheath 內束鞘細胞: (Xyms+)metaxylem pole adjacent with mestome sheath
distance between two adjancent vein 脈間距: 437 micrometer
length/weidth ratio of bundle sheath in LS 束鞘細胞縱面長寬比: 4
chlorenchyma cell shape in LS 葉綠細胞縱面形狀: lobed
