Perennials; culm ftufted, erect, glabrous, 40-80 cm tall. Blade 5-10 mm wide, slightly glabrous;
sheath glabrous, longer than internode, compressed-keeled; ligule membranaceous, ca. 1.7 mm long.
Inflorescence with 3-5 racemes, racemes 3-6 cm long; rachis 1.5-3 mm wide, smooth. Spikelet obtuse,
ca. 2 mm long, elliptic or obovate, usually solitary, imbricate, in 2 rows; lower glume absent; upper
glume and lower lemma equal, membranaceous, 3-veined; upper lemma brown at maturity, coriaceous,
shiny.
TAICHUNG: Taichung, Shimada 361C. TAINAN: Tainan, Yamamoto & Suzuki 2342. PINGTUNG: Chihou,
Morimoto 7500.
India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Malesia, northern Australia and Polynesia. Taiwan, in moist
places.
midrib 中肋: (la)large:several vascular bundles
leaf surface 表面: (fla)flat surface
sclerenchyma 厚壁組織: (mistr)strand variable with size of vein
chlorenchyma 葉綠組織: (radia)cells radiate and lesser than bundle sheath cell in width
bundle sheath 維管束鞘: (sk)single bundle sheath with conspicuous chloroplast
buliform cells not well developed 泡狀細胞不發達: (irreg)epidermal cells irregular in size
chlorenchyma cell number between two adjacent veins: 2
chloroplast form in bundle sheath 束鞘細胞內之葉綠體型式: (out)large amount and in centrifugal site
mestome sheath 內束鞘細胞: (Xyms -)metaxylem pole adjacent with outer bundle sheath
distance between two adjancent vein 脈間距: 87 micrometer
length/weidth ratio of bundle sheath in LS 束鞘細胞縱面長寬比: 2
chlorenchyma cell shape in LS 葉綠細胞縱面形狀: lobed
