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穗发草Deschampsia koelerioides Regel

穗发草Deschampsia koelerioides Regel

别名:图如-扎拉图-额布苏;

科名:禾本科 Gramineae

属名:发草属 Deschampsia

《中国植物志》第9(3)卷147页
  2.穗发草(拟)图版37:5-8
  Deschampsia koelerioieles Regel in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 41: 299. 1868; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 7: 273. 1897; Roshev. in Kom. Fl. URSS 2: 251. t. 18. 1934; Bor, Grass. Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pakist. 435. 1960; Tzvel. in Pl. Asiae Centr. 4: 94. 1968. ——Deschampsia caespitosa subsp. koelerioides (Regel) Tzvel. Poac. URSS 285. 1976.
  多年生。须根粗且长,柔韧。秆直立,密集丛生,光滑无毛,高5-30厘米,基部具多数残存叶鞘。叶鞘疏松,光滑无毛;叶舌透明膜质,披针形,先端渐尖,长2-4毫米;叶多基生,茎生者仅1-2枚,叶片多纵卷,稀扁平,线形,宽1-4毫米,上面粗糙,下面光滑,基生叶长达8厘米,茎生叶长1-3厘米。圆锥花序紧缩呈穗状圆柱形,或稍疏松为卵圆形,长2-7厘米,宽1-2.5厘米,分枝缩短或近于不分枝,光滑无毛;小穗褐黄色或褐紫色,有光泽,长4-6毫米,常含2小花;小穗轴节间长0.8-1.2毫米,被0.5-1毫米的柔毛;颖与小穗几等长,两颖等长或第一颖稍短于第二颖,第一颖具1脉,第二颖具3脉;外稃长3-4毫米,顶端具啮蚀状锯齿,基盘钝,被0.5-1毫米的毛,芒自稃体基部1/5-1/4处伸出,直立或稍弯曲,与稃体等长或略短;雄蕊3,花药紫色,长1.5-2.2毫米。花期7-8月。
  产内蒙古、甘肃、新疆、西藏、青海等省区。生于海拔3500-5100米的高山河漫滩上或灌丛下及潮湿处。分布于亚洲中部、苏联西西伯利亚、喜马拉雅西北部和土耳其。模式标本采自苏联。
形态特征:多年生草木。秆直立,密丛生,高20—30cm.叶鞘光滑,叶舌长5mm,叶片扁平。圆锥花序紧密呈穗状,长2一8cm,小穗棕紫色,有光泽,通常含2花,二颖膜质,近等长,第一颖具1脉,第二颖具3脉,外稃膜质,具3脉,先端啮蚀状,下部(1/3—1/4)处伸出一劲直的约与稃体等长或稍长的芒,花药通常紫色,长2—2.5mm;花丝细丝状,长达3.5mm(图15)。染色体:2n=26。
地理分布:穗发草在我国分布于新疆天山和阿尔泰山,国外在蒙古,中亚和西伯利亚也有分布。
生态特征:特性穗发草为多年生寒中生密丛型下繁禾草,高寒草甸的伴生种。适宜寒冷湿润的高山气候,生于松软、潮湿,地表覆盖10—20cm生草层的高山草甸土上。据调查在伊犁地区海拔3200—3400m的高山带,它常伴生于以高山早熟禾(Poaalpina)、西伯利亚羽衣草(Alchemillasibirica)、天山羽衣草(A.Tianschanica)、黑花苔草(Carexmelanantha)、珠芽蓼(Polygonumviviparum)、蓝苞葱(Alliumatrosanguineum)、山地糙苏(phlomisoreophila)等寒中生小丛禾草,小莎草,小杂类草为建群种组成的高寒草甸不同的草地型中,群落中经常与它一起伴生的还有高山黄花茅(Anthoxanthumalpinum)、高山梯牧草(phleumalpinum)、高山紫菀(Asteralpinus)、高山龙胆(Gentianaalgida),喉花草(Comastomapulmjonaria)、宽瓣毛茛(Ranunculusalberti)等。这些类型的草地所处高山带气候冷湿,年均气温<—2℃,年降水量>700mm,所以植被低矮,盖度为60—90%,一般草质优良,适口性好,耐牧性强,而且水源丰富,无蚊蝇,是优良的夏牧场,但利用期短,仅100天左有。在 阿尔泰山穗发草也作为伴生种出现于海拔2600m以上的高寒草甸草地中。穗发草通常于5月下旬返青,6月抽穗,7月小下旬开花,8月初结实,9月下旬枯黄。
饲用价值:穗发草叶量丰富,据测定茎叶穗比为17.2:69:13.8,草质柔软,适口性好,各类家畜均喜食,尤其绵羊,牦羊、马最喜食。据分析粗蛋白质含量在禾本科牧草中居中上等,粗纤维含量较低(表15—1)。所含氨基酸种类较丰富(表15—2)。再生性强,耐践踏,是放牧利用的优良牧草。

《Flora of China》 Vol. 22 (2006)
Deschampsia koelerioides  Regel
穗发草   sui fa cao
Deschampsia cespitosa (Linnaeus) P. Beauvois subsp. ko-elerioides (Regel) Tzvelev.
Perennial, forming small dense tussocks. Culms erect, 5–40 cm tall, 1–1.7 mm in diam., 1(or 2)-noded. Leaf sheaths loose, glabrous; leaf blades linear, flat or rolled, up to 20 cm, 1–3 mm wide, abaxial surface smooth, adaxial surface with coarse sharp ridges, smooth or scaberulous; ligule acuminate, up to 8 mm. Panicle densely contracted to spikelike, ovoid to oblong, 1–7 cm, brownish purple with golden sheen; branches very short, visible or not. Spikelets 4–6 mm, florets 2, rachilla internode ca. 1 mm; glumes subequal to spikelet, lower glume slightly shorter than or equaling upper glume, 1-veined, upper glume 3-veined, apex acute or obtuse, often lacerate; callus hairs ca. 1/3 lemma length; lemmas 3–4 mm, awned from or near lower 1/4, apex broadly 2-toothed, teeth irregularly lacerate; awn straight or slightly bent, equaling or slightly longer than lemma. Anthers 1.5–2.2 mm. Fl. Jul–Aug.
Damp alpine meadows, wet places near rivers and stream banks; 3500–5100 m. Gansu, Nei Mongol, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Xizang [E Afghanistan, Kashmir, Kazakhstan (Tarbagatai Mountains), Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, N Pakistan, Russia (S Siberia), Tajikistan (Pamirs), Uzbekistan].
This is a distinctive, high-altitude variant from the Deschampsia cespitosa complex, distinguished by its short, spikelike, purple-brown panicles.

A specimen collected in S Xizang (N of Kumaon, N India) has been assigned to Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. sikkimensis Noltie, which is otherwise known only from India (Sikkim). It is a small plant with compact panicles, close to D. koelerioides, but differing in its pyramidal panicle with the spikelets aggregated into fascicles.

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