Pleioblastus maculosoides

HABIT Perennial. Rhizomes elongated; leptomorph. Culms erect; 500–650 cm long; 20–30 mm diam.; woody. Culm-internodes terete; 40 cm long; glaucous; distally pubescent. Culm-nodes swollen. Lateral branches dendroid. Culm-sheaths green and brown; distinctly mottled with last colour; hispid; hairy on margins; convex at apex; without auricles; glabrous on shoulders, or ciliate on shoulders. Culm-sheath ligule 8 mm high; ciliolate. Culm-sheath blade linear, or lanceolate; reflexed; pubescent (beneath). Leaves 3–5 per branch. Leaf-sheaths glabrous on surface. Leaf-sheath oral hairs setose; spreading; 3 mm long. Leaf-sheath auricles absent. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 3–4 mm long; acute. Leaf-blade base with a brief petiole-like connection to sheath; petiole 0.5 cm long. Leaf-blades lanceolate; 12–19 cm long; 17–23 mm wide. Leaf-blade venation with 14–16 secondary veins. Leaf-blade surface pubescent; hairy abaxially. Leaf-blade apex acute.

INFLORESCENCE Flowering specimens unknown.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-temperate: China.

NOTES Arundinarieae. Fl China 2007.

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