Syntherisma sericea Honda, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 38: 127. 1924.
Annuals; cume tufted, 30-50 cm high. Blade linear-lanceolate, 4-8 cm long, 3-6 mm wide, villous;
sheath short, loose, hirsute; ligule dry and membranaceous, obtuse, ca. 2 mm long, glabrous. Inflorescence
in digitate racemes, racemes 2-5. Spikelets ovoid-lanceolate, acute, 3-4 mm long, pilose; lower
glume minute, reduced into a point of ca. 0.3 mm long, veinless; upper glume obtuse, lanceolate, ca. 2.7
mm long, 3-veined, long pilose; lower lemma acute, lanceolate, ca. 3 mm long, 5-7-viened, pilose;
upper lemma slightly shorter than lower lemma, acuminate, slightly coriaceous, margins incolute, glabrous;
anther ca. 1.3 mm long.
HSINCHU: Nanliao, Chuang 2563. TAITUNG: Tawu, Hsu 1035.
Endemic to Taiwan, in sandy littoral areas.
midrib 中肋: (la)large:several vascular bundles
leaf surface 表面: (fla)flat surface
sclerenchyma 厚壁組織: (ecstr)strand enclosed by colorless cells and epidermis
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: (smreg)epidermal cells gradually enlarge from vein to intervein
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: 82 micrometer
length/weidth ratio of bundle sheath in LS 束鞘細胞縱面長寬比: 1
chlorenchyma cell shape in LS 葉綠細胞縱面形狀: non -lobed
