Otatea carrilloi

HABIT Perennial. Rhizomes short (5–12 cm); pachymorph. Culms erect; nodding at the tip; 300–500 cm long; 10–35 mm diam.; woody. Culm-internodes terete; with small lumen; 11–19 cm long; distally glabrous. Lateral branches dendroid; intravaginal; ascending, or spreading. Branch complement three; with subequal branches. Culm-sheaths deciduous but leaving a persistent girdle; 19–28 cm long; 4–6 times as long as wide; glabrous, or hispid; hairy on margins; without auricles; setose on shoulders; shoulders with straight hairs; shoulders with 15–30.6 mm long hairs. Culm-sheath ligule 2.5–6.3 mm high. Culm-sheath blade triangular; reflexed; 10–31 cm long; glabrous on surface. Leaves 3–5 per branch. Leaf-sheaths without keel; glabrous on surface. Leaf-sheath oral hairs setose; 6.6–24 mm long. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 0.6–1.4 mm long; truncate. Collar with external ligule. Leaf-blade base with a brief petiole-like connection to sheath; petiole 0.2 cm long. Leaf-blades linear; 18–26 cm long; 6–9 mm wide; glaucous and mid-green; discolorous with last colour beneath. Leaf-blade venation without cross veins. Leaf-blade surface glabrous. Leaf-blade margins scaberulous. Leaf-blade apex attenuate.

INFLORESCENCE Flowering specimens unknown.

DISTRIBUTION North America: Mexico.

NOTES Bambuseae. Ruiz-Sanchez et al 2012.

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