Kinabaluchloa wrayi

HABIT Perennial; caespitose. Rhizomes short; pachymorph. Culms drooping at the tip; 1200–1800 cm long; 25 mm diam.; woody; without nodal roots. Culm-internodes terete; hollow; 100–200 cm long; yellow. Lateral branches dendroid. Leaf-sheath oral hairs setose; 6–10 mm long. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Collar with external ligule. Leaf-blade base with a brief petiole-like connection to sheath. Leaf-blades lanceolate; 15–25 cm long; 20–30 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface glabrous.

INFLORESCENCE Synflorescence bractiferous; clustered at the nodes; in untidy tufts; with glumaceous subtending bracts; with axillary buds at base of spikelet; prophyllate below lateral spikelets; leafy between clusters.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets lanceolate; laterally compressed; 10–11 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.

GLUMES Glumes several; comprising 3–4 gemmiferous bracts; 1 empty glumes. Upper glume 10 mm long.

FLORETS Fertile lemma lanceolate; 10–11 mm long; without keel; 9 -veined. Lemma apex acute. Palea 1 length of lemma; 10 -veined. Palea keels ciliolate. Rhachilla extension 6 mm long. Apical sterile florets 1 in number.

FLOWER Lodicules 3; 3.5 mm long; ciliate. Anthers 6; 4 mm long. Stigmas 3. Ovary umbonate.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-tropical: Malesia.

NOTES Bambuseae. Holttum 1995.

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