BAMBOOS OF INDI A

Bamboos of India
➤Fig. 75. R. mannii. A - leafy branch; B - culmsheath.
surface, hairy on the ventral surface, scabrous
on the edge, attenuate at the base into ca.5 mm
long wrinkled petiole, tip hirsute with long
setaceous point; midrib narrow, shining,
secondary veins 5 pairs, intermediate 6;
transverse veinlets inconspicuous; leaf sheath
glabrous, striate, ending on one side a round
shining callus without auricle, on the other side
into a pointed auricle with few long bristles,
ligule small, hairy.
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DISTRIBUTION
The species is reported from North-East India - Meghalaya (Jaintia Hills).
USES
The culms are split and used as a binding material for building huts (Bahadur and Jain, 1981).
Racemobambos prainii
Racemobambos prainii (Gamble) J. Campbell, Gen. Himal. Bamb. 10. 1985. Keng.f. & Wen, J. Bam. Res. 5(2): 13.
1986. (Fig. 76).
Arundinaria prainii. Gamble, Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 7: 21. 1896 and in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 7: 383. 1897;
Blatter, Indian For. 55: 546. 1929 and J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 33: 902. 1930; Thamnocalamus prainii (Gamble)
Camus, Les Bambusees 54. 1913; Bor in Kanjilal, Fl. Assam. 54. 1940; Varmah and Bahadur, Indian For. Rec. (n.s) Bot.
6(1): 4. 1980; Biswas, Indian For. 114: 528. 1988; Microcalamus prainii Gamble, J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 59(2): 207.
1890; Holttum, Gard. Bull. Singapore 15: 267. 1956. Neomicrocalamus prainii (Gamble) Keng, J. Bamboo Res. 2(1):
38. 1983; Tewari, Monogr. Bamboo 108. 1992.
VERNACULAR NAMES
Khasi and Jaintia Hills-Sampit, Usepeit, Uppit; Naga Hills- Kevva.
DESCRIPTION
A wiry climbing shrubby bamboo. Culms ca. 10 m long and ca. 8 mm diameter, solid, slender, smooth yellowish;
internode ca. 20 cm long, walls thick, nodes swollen with a well marked ring; branchlets many, fascicled. Culm-sheaths
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