銳穎葛氏草

Urachne acutigluma Steud., Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 121. 1854.

Culm erect, tufted. Blade linear, up to 20 cm long by 6 mm wide; ligule about 0.3 mm long; sheath-mouth pubescent. Inflorescence an open panicle. Spikelets 1-flowered, about 3 mm long, excluding the awn; glumes lanceolate, 3-nerved; the lower glume about 3 mm long, shortly awned; the upper nearly as long as the lower scabrous along nerves; lemma lanceolate, 3 nerved, about 3 mm long, midnerve prolonged into a long awn; palea elliptical, about 2 mm long, 2-keeled, margins ciliate.

A very rare species growing along coastal regions.

No Taiwan species are found in our herbarium .