Perennials; culm tufted, 50-100 cm tall, erect, decumbent at base. Blade 15-50 cm long, 7-12 mm
wide, glabrous, more or less glaucous; sheath glabrous, longer than internode, compressed, keeled;
ligule membranaceous, 0.5-1 mm long, with tawny hairs abaxially. Racemes 2-5(-8); rachis 1.5-3 mm
wide, margins scabrous. Spikelet solitary, imbricate, glabrous, orbicular to ovate, 2-3 mm long; lower
glume absent; upper glume membranaceous, 5 veined; lower lemma 5-7-veined, membranaceous or
sometimes indurate; upper lemma dark brown at maturity, coriaceous.
TAIPEI: Hsintien, Shimizu 2234. MIAOLI: Chuhuangkeng, Hsu 120. TAICHUNG: Houli, Sasaki 6293. NANTOU:
Puli, Masamune & Suzuki 4291. TAINAN: Chiali, Morimoto 248. PINGTUNG: Chutien, Hsu 528. TAITUNG:
Wushan, Masamune 2669; Lanyu Is., Sasaki s. n. HUALIEN: Matain, Suzuki 12248.
Tropical Asia and Pacific islands. Taiwan, common in tea plantation, roadsides, dry fields, grasslands
and waste places.
