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Bambusa angustiaurita (Bambusa angustiaurita)

Description

Culms 8–10 m,3–6 cm in diam.,basally slightly flexuose,apically slightly drooping;internodes ca.30 cm,initially stiffly dull brown hairy;wall thick;basal ca.3 nodes with persistent ring of gray-white silky hairs above sheath scar;branching from 2nd to 5th node up.Branches solitary or 3 to several per node,dominant 3 longer and thicker;branchlets of those on lower nodes sometimes forming weak thorns.Culm sheaths deciduous,thickly leathery,ribbed-striate when dry,uniformly stiffly dull brown hairy or hairy only near base,apex subtruncate or slightly asymmetrical,broadly arched;auricles unequal,linear;larger auricle 1.5–2 × ca.0.3 cm;smaller auricle ca.1 × 0.2 cm;oral setae ca.3 mm,undulate;ligule 3–4 mm,dentate,shortly fimbriate;blade erect,narrowly ovate to ovate-lanceolate,base slightly arched,narrowed,nearly 1/2 width of sheath apex,apex acuminate,sharply tipped.Leaf blade linear-lanceolate to lanceolate,8–16 × 1.3–2.3 cm,both surfaces glabrous.Inflorescence unknown.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Liliopsida

          • Order: Poales

            • Family: Poaceae

              • Genus: Bambusa