科名：禾本科 Gramineae

属名：甜茅属 Glyceria

《中国植物志》第9(2)卷330页
  8．中华甜茅（禾本科图说）
  Glyceria chinensis Keng ex Z. L. Wu in Acta Phytotax. Sinic. 30(2): 174. 1992. ——Glyceria tonglensis C. B. Clarke in Hand.-Mazz. , Symb. Sin. 7: 1285. 1936. sphalm. det. ——Ghlyceria chinensis Keng, 中国主要植物图说·禾本科251, 图205. 1959. sine descr. latin.
  多年生。秆细软，扁压，光滑，基部常横卧并于节上生根，高30-60厘米，径1.5-2毫米。叶鞘光滑，闭合至中部以上，长于或下部者短于节间；叶舌膜质，长5-6毫米，上部常撕裂；叶片柔软或上部者直立，扁平或干后内卷，长5-12厘米，宽2-3毫米，光滑或上面微粗糙。圆锥花序狭窄，长15-19厘米，下部常包藏于叶鞘内或稍伸出，上部各节小穗单生，下部者具2-3分枝；分枝单纯，直立，着生1-3小穗；小穗狭线形，长11-14毫米，含6-8小花，淡绿色或带紫色；颖膜质，卵形至长卵形，顶端钝，具1脉，第一颖长约2毫米，第二颖长约3毫米；外稃草质，长圆状卵形，稍钝，具狭膜质，具7脉，脉上微粗糙，有时脉间粗糙，第一外稃长4-4.5毫米；内秤等长于或稍长于外稃，顶端微凹，脊具狭翼，翼缘粗糙；雄蕊3，花药长0.8-1毫米。花期5-7月。
  特产贵州。生于湿润草地。模式标本采自贵州兴义。

《Flora of China》 Vol. 22 (2006)
Glyceria chinensis  Keng ex Z. L. Wu
中华甜茅   zhong hua tian mao
Perennial. Culms soft, decumbent at base, rooting at lower nodes, 30–60 cm tall, 1.5–2 mm in diam. Leaf sheaths smooth, longer or lower shorter than internodes; leaf blades flat or folded, flaccid, 5–12 cm × 2–3 mm, smooth or adaxial surface scabrid, apex acute; ligule 5–6 mm. Panicle narrow, 15–19 cm, base included in uppermost leaf sheath or shortly exserted; branches 2 at lower nodes, suberect, bearing 1–3 spikelets, panicle racemelike toward apex. Spikelets linear-oblong, 1–1.6 cm, florets 5–9, green; glumes oblong-ovate, membranous, 1-veined, lower glume 1.7–2 mm, apex acute, upper glume 2.7–3 mm, apex obtuse; lemmas lanceolate-oblong, 4–4.5 mm, herbaceous, smooth or scaberulous, 7-veined, veins scaberulous, apex membranous, obtuse; palea as long as or slightly longer than lemma, keels narrowly winged, apex emarginate. Stamens 3, anthers 0.7–1 mm.
* Damp places. SW Guizhou (Xingyi), E Yunnan.