Bambusa ramispinosa

HABIT Perennial; caespitose. Rhizomes short; pachymorph. Culms erect; 800 cm long; 38 mm diam.; woody; without nodal roots, or with root thorns from the nodes. Culm-internodes terete; 30 cm long; smooth; distally mealy. Culm-nodes swollen. Lateral branches dendroid. Buds or branches present on lower quarter of culm. Branch complement several; with 1 branch dominant. Culm-sheaths deciduous; glabrous; truncate at apex; auriculate; with subequal auricles; with 5 mm wide auricles; setose on shoulders; shoulders with 5 mm long hairs. Culm-sheath ligule 3 mm high; dentate, or ciliolate. Culm-sheath blade triangular; erect; hispid. Leaves cauline. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Collar with external ligule. Leaf-blade base with a brief petiole-like connection to sheath. Leaf-blades lanceolate; 9.5–13 cm long; 11–16 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface puberulous; hairy abaxially. Leaf-blade margins scabrous. Leaf-blade apex acuminate.

INFLORESCENCE Flowering specimens unknown.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-temperate: China.

NOTES Bambuseae. Chia & Fung 2002.

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