Zoysia sinica Hance

This species can be recognized by its long, straight-sided spikelets with falcate tips. Specimens with spikelets at the upper end of the size range (5–8 mm) have been separated as var. nipponica, but variation is continuous and spikelet size can be variable even on a single specimen.

This species is a good lawn grass.

Zoysia sinica Hance var. macrantha (Nakai) Ohwi, Bot. Mag. Tokyo 10: 269. 1941.
Zoysia liukiuensis Honda, Bot. Mag. Tokyo 36: 114. 1922. Culm tufted, slender, with stolon. Blade 4-6 cm long by 2-3 mm wide, apex needle-like; ligule about 0.2 mm long, upper part a fringe of hairs; sheath-mouth with long silky hairs. Inflorescence a contracted panicle, about 2.5 cm long. Spikelets 1-flowered, about 4 mm long, pale purplish; lower glume wanting; upper glume as long as the spikelet, coriaceous, folded, margins membranous and inrolled, shortly awned at the apex; lemma membranous, lanceolate, truncate or with a sinus, 1-nerved; palea and lodicule reduced.

Perennial, forming dense spreading mats from slender underground rhizomes. Culms erect from nodes of rhizome, stiff, 10–30 cm tall, branched at base. Leaf sheaths glabrous, usually persistent at base, pilose at mouth; leaf blades broadly linear, flat or margins involute, stiff, suberect to patent, 2–10 cm, 2–3 mm wide, green or gray-green, glabrous, apex pungent. Inflorescence linear-elliptic, 2–4(–8) × 0.4–0.5 cm, usually shortly exserted from uppermost leaf sheath; spikelets many, closely overlapping; pedicels shorter than spikelet, ca. 3 mm, widened at apex. Spikelets 4–8 × 1–1.5 mm, yellowish brown or purplish brown; lower glume absent; upper glume lanceolate-oblong to narrowly oblong with slightly falcate apex, obscurely 7–11-veined, midvein usually shortly excurrent; lemma lanceolate-oblong, 3–4 mm, 1-veined; palea absent. Anthers 1.5–2.5 mm. Fl. and fr. May–Oct.

Distributed in littoral regions on mainland China and Taiwan.

Coastal sands, extending to grazed and trodden places inland. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hebei, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Shandong, Taiwan, Zhejiang [Japan, Korea].

Zoysia matrella (Linnaeus) Merrill var. macrantha Nakai ex Honda; Z. sinica var. macrantha (Nakai ex Honda) Ohwi; Z. sinica subsp. nipponica (Ohwi) T. Koyama; Z. sinica var. nipponica Ohwi.

Zoysia sinica là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được Hance miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1869.

中华结缕草（学名：Zoysia sinica）是禾本科结缕草属的植物。分布于日本、台湾岛以及中国大陆的江苏、福建、广东、河北、浙江、辽宁、山东、安徽等地，生长于海拔500米的地区，多生在河岸、海边沙滩以及路旁的草丛中。