Bothriochloa intermedia (R. Br.) A. Camus in Ann. Soc. L. Lyon n. s. 76: 164.
1931; Hsu, Fl. Taiwan 5: 623. 1978; Koyama, Grass. Jap. Neighb. Reg. 441. 1987.
Andropogon intermedius R. Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. 202. 1810;Honda 1. c. 341. 1930.
Andropogon intermedius var. punctatus sensu Honda, l. c. 342. 1930.
Bothriochloa haenkei (Presl) Ohwi, 1. c. 11: 168. 1942.
Bothriochloa glabra (Roxb.) A. Camus var. perfectior (Hook. & Arn.) Ohwi, I. c. ll: 167. 1942.
Bothriochloa intermedia var. punctata (Roxb.) Keng, Clav. Gram. Prim. Sin, 244. 1957.
Bothriochloa blahdii var. punctata (Roxb.) Steward, Kew Bull. 29(2): 444. 1974.
Culm stout, about 45 cm long and 3 mm across. Blade about 7 mm wide; ligule about 1 mm long, ciliate on upper part and backside. Inflorescence a narrow panicle, about 10 cm long. Spikelets paired, dimorphic; the upper pedicellate, pedicel with a translucent longitudinal groove; the lower sessile and fertile, about 3.4 mm long, excluding the long awn. Lower glume subcoriaceous, lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved, about 3.2 mm long, margins inrolled; upper glume subcoriaceous, lanceolate, as long as the lower, 5-7-nerved, upper margins 2-keeled, hispid; upper lemma aristate, the awn 5 times the length of the lemma, flexuous, linear, 1-nerved, about 1.5 mm long; upper palea chartaceous, lanceolate, about 2.5 mm long, 2-nerved; anther about 1.2 mm long.
MIAOLI: Nankenshi, Hsu 567. TAICHUNG: Pakuashan, Kuoh 1601. CHIAYI: Tungshih, DeVol 8343. YUNLIN: Hsilo, Hsu 4758. TAINAN: Hsinhua, Hsu 3003. KAOHSIUNG: Chishan, Hsu 5046. PINGTUNG: Kenting, Hsu 4181.
Distributed in tropical Asia and Pacific Islands to Australia and and tropical Africa.
This is a good fodder grass.
midrib 中肋: (la)large:several vascular bundles
leaf surface 表面: (fla)flat surface
sclerenchyma 厚壁組織: (noscl)no except large 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 well developed 泡狀細胞發達: mainly appear in adaxial side
with small vein under buliform cells泡狀細胞下有小脈: (bcarc)bulliform cell with colorless cells form an arc-shape
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: 65 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
