TAIPEI: Hsinhuatien, Hsu 176. NANTOU: Puli, Hsu 1380. TAITUNG: Lanyu Is., Sasaki s. n.
Tropics and subtropics of the Old World. Taiwan, at plains in moist place.
Perennials; culm tufted, 15-20 cm tall. Blade acuminate, 5-10 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, both surfaces
pilose-tomentose; sheath hirsute, compressed, shorter than internode; ligule membranaceous, truncate,
ca. 2 mm long. Racemes 2 or more, 2-3 cm long; rachis flattened and winged, 1.5 mm wide. Spikelets in
2-rows, ca. 2 mm long, pubescent-villous; lower glume absent; upper glume membranaceous, 3-5-
veined; lower lemma as long as spikelet; lower palea oblong, obtuse, base contracted; upper lemma cartilaginous,
obtuse, margins narrowly incurved, indurate; anther ca. 0.8 mm long.
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 not well developed 泡狀細胞不發達: (irreg)epidermal cells irregular in size
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
