Phyllostachys tianmuensis

HABIT Perennial. Rhizomes elongated; leptomorph. Culms erect; 700–800 cm long; 30–40 mm diam.; woody. Culm-internodes semiterete; yellow and mid-green; striped; distally pruinose. Culm-nodes swollen; with distinct supra-nodal ridge. Lateral branches dendroid. Culm-sheaths chartaceous; red and brown; distinctly mottled with last colour; glabrous; glabrous on margins; without auricles; glabrous on shoulders. Culm-sheath ligule purple. Culm-sheath blade linear, or lanceolate; reflexed. Leaves cauline; 2–3 per branch. Leaf-sheath oral hairs scanty, or lacking. Leaf-sheath auricles absent. Ligule a ciliolate membrane; truncate, or obtuse. Leaf-blade base with a brief petiole-like connection to sheath. Leaf-blades lanceolate; 15 cm long; 20 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface pubescent; hairy abaxially.

INFLORESCENCE Flowering specimens unknown.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-temperate: China.

NOTES Arundinarieae. Fl China 2006.

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