Pleioblastus intermedius

HABIT Perennial. Rhizomes elongated; leptomorph. Culms erect; 300–400 cm long; 10–20 mm diam.; woody. Culm-internodes terete; with small lumen; 21–22 cm long; dark green, or glaucous; distally hispid. Culm-nodes swollen. Lateral branches dendroid. Culm-sheaths tardily deciduous; 1 length of internode; coriaceous; green; without auricles; ciliate on shoulders; shoulders with straight hairs. Culm-sheath ligule 2 mm high; ciliolate. Culm-sheath blade triangular; reflexed; acuminate. Leaves 3–4(–8) per branch. Leaf-sheaths hispid. Leaf-sheath oral hairs lacking. Leaf-sheath auricles falcate. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 5 mm long. Leaf-blade base cuneate; asymmetrical; with a brief petiole-like connection to sheath. Leaf-blades lanceolate; 10–23 cm long; (10–)25–33 mm wide. Leaf-blade venation with 14–16 secondary veins. Leaf-blade surface puberulous; hairy adaxially. Leaf-blade margins serrulate.

INFLORESCENCE Flowering specimens unknown.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-temperate: China.

NOTES Arundinarieae. Fl China 2007.

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