Yushania flexa

HABIT Perennial. Rhizomes short; pachymorph. Culms erect; 300–500 cm long; 10–25 mm diam.; woody. Culm-internodes terete; solid; 25–30 cm long; striate; distally mealy. Lateral branches dendroid. Bud complement 1. Branch complement several. Culm-sheaths persistent; 12–20 cm long; 3 times as long as wide; coriaceous; hispid; with appressed hairs; with dark brown hairs; glabrous on margins; without auricles; glabrous on shoulders, or ciliate on shoulders; shoulders with 2–3 mm long hairs. Culm-sheath ligule 2–3 mm high; entire, or ciliate. Culm-sheath blade linear, or lanceolate; deciduous; reflexed; 1.5–7.5 cm long; 2–4 mm wide. Leaves 4–6 per branch. Leaf-sheaths 4.5–7 cm long; outer margin glabrous. Leaf-sheath oral hairs scanty, or lacking. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 1–2 mm long; purple; obtuse. Leaf-blade base cuneate; with a brief petiole-like connection to sheath; petiole 0.2–0.3 cm long. Leaf-blades lanceolate; 7.5–15.5 cm long; 12–21 mm wide; chartaceous. Leaf-blade venation with 6–10 secondary veins; with obscure cross veins. Leaf-blade surface glabrous. Leaf-blade margins scabrous. Leaf-blade apex acuminate.

INFLORESCENCE Flowering specimens unknown.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-temperate: China.

NOTES Arundinarieae. Yi 2002.

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