Indosasa glabrata

HABIT Perennial. Rhizomes elongated; leptomorph. Culms erect; 300 cm long; 20 mm diam.; woody. Culm-internodes terete; hollow; 20–30 cm long. Culm-nodes flanged; with distinct supra-nodal ridge. Lateral branches dendroid. Branch complement three. Culm-sheaths tardily deciduous; glabrous, or puberulous; with tawny hairs; without auricles; glabrous on shoulders. Culm-sheath ligule 1–2 mm high; entire. Culm-sheath blade inconspicuous. Leaves 2–4 per branch. Leaf-sheaths deciduous. Leaf-sheath oral hairs setose. Leaf-sheath auricles absent. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blade base cuneate; with a brief petiole-like connection to sheath. Leaf-blades lanceolate, or elliptic; 11–23 cm long; 20–50 mm wide; chartaceous. Leaf-blade venation with 10–14 secondary veins. Leaf-blade surface glabrous. Leaf-blade margins scaberulous. Leaf-blade apex acuminate.

INFLORESCENCE Flowering specimens unknown.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-temperate: China.

NOTES Arundinarieae. Chu & Chao 2002.

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