Phaenosperma globosa Munro ex Benth., J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 19(115-116): 59-60. 1881. Hsu, Fl. Taiwan 5: 454. 1978; Koyama, Grass. Jap. Neighb. Reg. 144. 1987.
顯子草
Large perennial. Culm loosely tufted, rigid, up to 100 cm tall, 3 mm in diameter. Blades 25-40 cm long, 15-25 mm widke; ligule chaffy, 5-10 mm long, lanceolate.Panicle open, loose, 30-50 cm long; branches solitary or rarely paired, 2-several-branchlets at globosely thickened base. Spikelets1-flowered, 3-3.5 mm logn; lower glume membranous, deltoid-lanceolate, 1-nerved 2 mm long; upper glume oblong, 3-nerved, 3 mm long; lemma ovate-lanceolate, papery, shiny, 3-5-merved, 3.5 mm long, margins hyaline; palea elliptical, papery, 2-nerved, 3.5 mm long. Caryopsis elliptical-globose, 3 mm logn, rugose, with small apical knob.
HUALIEN: Tailuko, Sasaki 38036; en route Tienhsing to Jinn Herng Bridge, C. I. Peng 9294.
Distributed in Japan, Korea and southeastern China.
