Aira flexuosa L., Sp. Pl. 1: 65. 1753.
Aira kawakamii Hayata, Bot. Mag. Tokyo 20: 57. 1906; Icon. Pl. Form. 7: 90. 1918.
Deschampsia kawakamii (Hayata) Honda, Monogr. Poac. Jap. 140. 1930.
Culms tufted, slender, less than 30 cm tall. Blade filiform; ligule tongue-shaped, 2 mm long. Panicle open, loose, purplish, 5-12 cm long. Spikelets 2-several-flowered, 5 mm long; glumes lanceolate, acute; the lower 5 mm long, 3-nerved, lateral nerves shorter; the uppe glumes 4 mm long, 1-nerved.Floret 4 mm long, basal part covered with short hairs which are 1/3 the length of the floret; lemma rounded at the apex, as long as the floret, with a bent awn arising from below the middle; palea slightly shorter than the lemma, minutely 2-tooted, 2-keeled on back. Anthers 2 mm long. Caryopsis glabrous, 2.5 mm long.
Widely distributed in Eurasia and N. America.
Common exposed gravelly soil in alpine zone, and rocky slopes in montain regions.
midrib 中肋: (no)not conspicuous
leaf surface 表面: (dee)upper surface with deep notch between the veins
sclerenchyma 厚壁組織: (conti)strand extend and more or less continuous
chlorenchyma 葉綠組織: (homog)homogenous sponge tissue
bundle sheath 維管束鞘: (nke)bundle sheaths without chloroplast
buliform cells not well developed 泡狀細胞不發達: (nobul)if present only along side of midrib
chloroplast form in bundle sheath 束鞘細胞內之葉綠體型式: (not)no chloroplast
distance between two adjancent vein 脈間距: 170 micrometer
