Yushania baishanzuensis

HABIT Perennial. Rhizomes short (25 cm); pachymorph. Culms erect; 150–200 cm long; 5 mm diam.; woody. Culm-internodes terete; with small lumen; 19 cm long; distally mealy. Culm-nodes with distinct supra-nodal ridge. Lateral branches dendroid. Branch complement three to many. Culm-sheaths tardily deciduous; 0.5–0.66 length of internode; coriaceous; hispid; with white hairs; hairy on margins; without auricles; glabrous on shoulders, or setose on shoulders; shoulders with straight hairs. Culm-sheath ligule 1 mm high. Culm-sheath blade linear, or triangular; erect; glabrous on surface. Leaves 3–5 per branch. Leaf-sheaths glabrous on surface. Leaf-sheath oral hairs setose; erect; 0.5–1 mm long. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 0.5 mm long; truncate, or obtuse. Leaf-blade base cuneate; with a brief petiole-like connection to sheath. Leaf-blades linear, or lanceolate; 6–14 cm long; 7–12 mm wide; chartaceous. Leaf-blade venation with 8 secondary veins; with obscure cross veins. Leaf-blade surface glabrous; hairless throughout, or except near base. Leaf-blade margins scabrous. Leaf-blade apex acuminate.

INFLORESCENCE Flowering specimens unknown.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-temperate: China.

NOTES Arundinarieae. Fl China 2006.

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