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(100) 中華結縷草
Zoysia sinica Hance
禾本科 [Poaceae(Gramineae)]
英文名 (English name): Chinese Lawn Grass
Status in China: Vulnerable (VU). Wild plant under State protection (category II).
Description: Perennial grasses having creeping rhizomes, 10-30cm high. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 10 cm long, 1-3mm wide, margine involute. Raceme spike-like, 2?cm long, 4-5mm wide; spikelets 1-flowered, purplish brown, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 4-5(-6) mm long, 1-1.5mm wide; bilateral appressed，spikelet stalk toward 2 mm long; disarticulating below the glume, first glume wanting and second glume enveloping the thin lemma, glabrous, shortly pointed. Grain brown, long elliptic, ca. 3 mm long.
Distribution: Ma On Shan, Castle Peak. Liaoning, Hebei, S. & E. China. Japan.
Habitat and Ecology: On sandy beaches, river-bank. Flowering & Fruiting: May-Oct.
The habit of forming dense fine-textured turf, tolerating drought conditions make it very suitable for cultivation as a lawn grass.
Reference:
陳守良 1990: 中國植物誌 10(1):126, 圖版 39。科學出版社。北京。
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