Lophatherum sinense Rendle

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Lophatherum

Characteristics

Culms tufted, stiffly erect, up to 110 cm tall. Leaf sheaths usually glabrous; leaf blades lanceolate, 15–20 × 3–5 cm, base rounded to a pseudopetiole; ligule very small. Inflorescence 15–25 cm, racemes few, distant, up to 5 cm, closely spiculate with subsessile imbricate spikelets. Spikelets obliquely ovate, flattened, 7–10 mm; glumes broadly ovate, weakly keeled, 5(–7)-veined; lower glume ca. 4 mm; upper glume ca. 5 mm; lemma of fertile floret broadly ovate with gibbous back, keeled, ca. 6 mm, palea shorter than lemma; awn of fertile and sterile lemmas ca. 1 mm. Fl. and fr. Aug–Oct. 2n = 48*.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Distribution

Lophatherum sinense world distribution map, present in China, Japan, and Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:407544-1
WFO ID wfo-0000878559
COL ID 3W236
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Synonyms

Lophatherum sinense Lophatherum sinense f. leiophyllum