Catalog 1 Pinyin 2 Chinese name 3 Pinyin 4 Latin name 5 FRPS 6 Description 7 Species in the genus 1 Pinyin

dàn zhú yè shǔ

2 Chinese name

淡竹叶属

3 Pinyin

danzhuyeshu

4 Latin name

Lophatherum

5 FRPS

09(2). 35

6 Description

Lophatherum Brongn. is a genus of grasses in the family Gramineae, with only two species, L. gracile Brongn. and L. sinense Rendle, distributed in East Asia. Herbs perennial; leaves lanceolate, shortly stipitate, resembling bamboo leaves; spikelet with several florets, disarticulating below glumes, lower floret fruiting, others reduced to a bundle of empty lemmas, lemma apex shortly awned; glumes long elliptic, obtusely cuspidate, 5-veined; first lemma subleathery, much longer than glumes, 7-9-veined, convex or shortly awned.

7 Species under the genus