Tatsunohige - Tatsunohige

Japanese: タツノヒゲ - たつのひげ

A perennial grass of the grass family that grows on mountain forest floors (illustration). The Japanese name, Ryu-no-hige, comes from the appearance of spikelets at the ends of slender branches. It grows loosely in clumps, with several hard scales at the base of the stem. The stem is thin and hard, bending at the lower nodes, and rises to a height of 30-50 cm. The leaves are sparsely alternate, lanceolate, 20-30 cm long and 1-1.4 cm wide, and gradually narrow at the end until they become long and pointed. The flowering season is August-September. The inflorescence is a very sparse cone-like shape, 10-20 cm long, with 2-3 thread-like branches from several nodes, which branch once or twice, and each branch has a single spikelet at its tip.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

山地の林床に生えるイネ科の多年草（イラスト）。和名の竜の鬚は細長い枝の先に小穂がついた状態に基づく。ゆるく叢生（そうせい）して茎の基部には硬い鱗片が数片ある。茎は細く，硬く，下方の節で膝折れしながら立ち上がり，高さは30～50cmである。葉はまばらに互生し，披針形で，長さは20～30cm，幅は1～1.4cmで，先はしだいに狭まって長くとがる。花期は8～9月。花序はきわめてまばらな円錐状で，長さは10～20cm，数節から2～3本ずつの糸状の枝を出し，枝は1～2回分岐して，小枝の先端に1個の小穂をつける。

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