Yushania multiramea

HABIT Perennial. Rhizomes short; pachymorph. Culms erect; 300–400 cm long; 5–10 mm diam.; woody; 15–20 -noded. Culm-internodes terete; solid; 24–28 cm long; smooth; distally glabrous. Culm-nodes flush with internodes. Lateral branches dendroid; ascending. Bud complement 1. Branch complement several, or many. Culm-sheaths persistent; 8–14 cm long; 5 times as long as wide; coriaceous; yellow; glabrous, or pubescent; with grey hairs; glabrous on margins, or hairy on margins; without auricles; glabrous on shoulders, or setose on shoulders; shoulders with 1–8 mm long hairs. Culm-sheath ligule 0.5 mm high; entire. Culm-sheath blade linear, or lanceolate; reflexed; 1–2.5 cm long; 1–2 mm wide; glabrous on surface. Leaves 3–6 per branch. Leaf-sheaths 2.4–3.5 cm long; mostly shorter than adjacent culm internode; pubescent. Leaf-sheath oral hairs setose; 1.5–4.5 mm long; pale. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 0.3 mm long; truncate. Leaf-blade base cuneate; with a brief petiole-like connection to sheath; petiole 0.1 cm long; petiole glabrous. Leaf-blades lanceolate; 4.5–13 cm long; 8–13 mm wide; chartaceous. Leaf-blade venation with 6–8 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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