Poa panicea Retz., Obs. Bot. 3: 11. 1783.
Festuca filiformis Lam., Tabl. Encycl. 1: 191. 1791.
Leptochloa filiformis (Lam..) Beauv., Ess. Agrost. 71, 166. 1812; Honda, Monogr. Poac. Jap. 147. 1930.
Culm tufted, up to 20 cm long. Blade linear-lanceolate, 4-6 mm wide, 5-nerved, covered with tubercular hairs along the lateral nerves. Inflorescence a large open panicle, about 20 cm long. Spikelets usually 3-flowered, about 1.1 mm long, upper-most floret reduced to merely a rachilla; glumes chartaceous, lanceolate, scabrous on backside, 1-nerved; the lower glume about 1 mm long, slightly shorter than the upper; lemma ovate-lanceolate, subcoriaceous, 3 nerved, margins slightly inrolled, pubescent on backside; palea chartaceous, elliptical, 2-keeled, sparingly hispid on back, nearly as long as the lemma. Caryopsis about 0.6 mm long, surface reticulate, rounded at the apex, acute at base; embryo 1/3 the length of the caryopsis.
TAIPEI: Taipei, Suzuki 12356. TAICHUNG: Neipu, Hsu 273. TAINAN: Chiali, Morimoto 232.. KAOHSIUNG: Fengshan, Wang 20087. PINGTUNG: Hengchun, Hsu 501. TAITUNG: Botel Tobago, Sasaki s. n. July 5, 1935; Green Island, Sasaki s. n. July 5, 1935.
Distributed in tropical Asia and Africa.
This grass is locally rather scarce.
leaf surface 表面: (sha)upper surface with shallow notch between the veins
sclerenchyma 厚壁組織: (boscl)(bostr)on both sides of veins as strand or girder
chlorenchyma 葉綠組織: (radia)cells radiate and lesser than bundle sheath cell in width
bundle sheath 維管束鞘: (dko)two bundle sheaths the outer one with conspicuous chloroplast
buliform cells well developed 泡狀細胞發達: mainly appear in adaxial side
no small vein under buliform cells泡狀細胞下無小脈: (bcfan)bulliform cell with colorless cells extend beneath it
chlorenchyma cell number between two adjacent veins: 2
chloroplast form in bundle sheath 束鞘細胞內之葉綠體型式: (inn)large amount and in centripetal site
mestome sheath 內束鞘細胞: (Xyms+)metaxylem pole adjacent with mestome sheath
distance between two adjancent vein 脈間距: 100 micrometer
length/weidth ratio of bundle sheath in LS 束鞘細胞縱面長寬比: 1
