Bambusa garuchokua

HABIT Perennial; caespitose. Rhizomes short; pachymorph. Culms geniculately ascending; 1000–1500 cm long; 50–100 mm diam.; woody; with aerial roots from the nodes. Culm-internodes terete; hollow; 15–46 cm long; grey; distally glabrous. Lateral branches dendroid. Buds or branches absent from lower quarter of culm. Culm-sheaths deciduous; 10–12 cm long; 0.66 times as long as wide; hispid; with appressed hairs; with black hairs; truncate at apex, or convex at apex; auriculate; ciliate on shoulders. Culm-sheath ligule 2 mm high. Culm-sheath blade triangular; 4–5 cm long. Leaf-sheaths glabrous on surface, or puberulous. Leaf-sheath oral hairs setose; deciduous; 2 mm long. Leaf-sheath auricles falcate. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Collar with external ligule. Leaf-blade base asymmetrical; with a brief petiole-like connection to sheath; petiole 0.5 cm long. Leaf-blades lanceolate; 10–25 cm long; 15–25 mm wide; mid-green and glaucous; discolorous with last colour beneath. Leaf-blade surface puberulous; hairy abaxially. Leaf-blade apex acuminate.

INFLORESCENCE Flowering specimens unknown.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-tropical: India.

NOTES Bambuseae. Barooah & Borthakur 2009.

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