Panicum brevifolium L.

Annuals; culm branching and rooting at lower nodes, 15-50 cm tall. Blade at least hispid at base, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, thin, cordate, clasping culm, 3-6 cm long, 1-2 cm wide; sheath glabrous, ciliate on margins; ligule a ring of hairs, ca. 0.5 mm long. Panicle ovoid, open, 5-12 cm long, branches capillary. Spikelets elliptic, turgid, purplish, narrowed at base, acutish, hispidulous, ca. 1.7 mm long; lower glume oblong, acute, 3-veined, nearly as long as spikelet; upper glume and lower lemma equal in length, 5-veined; lower palea as long as lower lemma; upper lemma ridged, smooth, coriaceous. .

Annual. Culms rambling, often rooting at lower nodes, 15–100 cm tall, nodes glabrous or pubescent. Leaves cauline; leaf sheaths puberulous or glabrous, ciliate on margins; ligule ca. 0.2 mm, a ciliolate membrane; leaf blades narrowly ovate to ovate, 5–10 × 1–3 cm, membranous, glabrous or pilose, cross veins present, base amplexicaul, apex finely acute to acuminate. Panicle oblong or ovate in outline, 5–15 cm, much branched; branches delicate, often tangled, glabrous or pilose, glandular patches present. Spikelets asymmetrically borne on the pedicels, ovate or elliptic in outline, 1.5–2 mm, sparsely puberulous to pilose; lower glume ovate, as long as spikelet, hyaline, 1–3-veined, separated by an internode; upper glume as long as spikelet, 5-veined; lower lemma similar to upper glume, palea well developed; upper floret white, scaberulous, shiny. Fl. and fr. May–Dec. 2n = 36.

Tropical Africa and Asia. Taiwan, in thickets, forest margins, trails and rice fields

Humid places, forest margins. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; tropical Africa].

Panicum arborescens Linnaeus; P. brevifolium var. hirti-folium (Ridley) Jansen; P. hirtifolium Ridley; P. longiglume H. Peng & L. H. Zhou; P. ovalifolium Poiret.

brevifolium: with short leaves

Panicum brevifolium adalah spesies tumbuhan yang tergolong ke dalam famili Poaceae. Spesies ini juga merupakan bagian dari ordo Poales. Spesies Panicum brevifolium sendiri merupakan bagian dari genus Panicum. Nama ilmiah dari spesies ini pertama kali diterbitkan oleh L..

Panicum brevifolium là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được L. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1753.

短叶黍（学名：Panicum brevifolium）为禾本科黍属下的一个种。